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Mess up meaning

Mess up is a phrasal verb with 4 meanings. One of them is to make a place or object dirty and disorganized.

Past simple
messed up
Past participle
messed up
-ing form
messing up

What mess up means

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To make a place or object dirty and disorganized

Please don't mess up the kitchen after I've cleaned it.

3 more meanings of mess up are in the Retite app, each with an example and a translation into your language.

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Similar phrasal verbs

With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, break up.

Common questions

What does mess up mean?

It has 4 meanings. One of them is to make a place or object dirty and disorganized. The other 3, each with an example and a translation into your language, are in the Retite app.

What is the past tense of mess up?

Messed up, which is also its past participle.

Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.

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