Mess up and To mess

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Mess up verb - To make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way.

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To mess and mess up are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To mess" with "Mess up", this terms are similar.

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Mess up and to mess are semantically related. You can use "Mess up" instead a verb phrase "To mess".

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, seems like every day you find some new way to mess up our lives, and NOW you found someone new to mess up their life too!

Source: The Reason You Suck Speech / Western Animation
He stopped trying to mess up the world and torment everyone, but after this, in the fourth and to an extent fifth seasons, he's fickle, unhelpful and lacking empathy, and likes to mess with people.

Source: Chaotic Neutral
And even there, if you mess up, she will not give you the idol (and she's a Spoiled Brat, so it's easy to mess up, although you can cheat the system slightly if you give her some items she likes before you start the quest so you have more leeway).

Source: Video Game / Dragon's Dogma

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