All ball up synonyms

verb ball up

• botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
• boggle — If you say that the mind boggles at something or that something boggles the mind, you mean that it is so strange or amazing that it is difficult to imagine or understand.
• bungle — If you bungle something, you fail to do it properly, because you make mistakes or are clumsy.
• flub — a blunder.
• foul up — something that is foul.
• fumble — to feel or grope about clumsily: She fumbled in her purse for the keys.
• mess up — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• mishandle — to handle badly; maltreat: to mishandle a dog.
• mismanage — Manage (something) badly or wrongly.
• muddle — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
• muff — sheet glass made from a blown cylinder (muff) that is split and flattened.
• confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• disorder — lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
• jumble — to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order: You've jumbled up all the cards.
• mix up — an act or instance of mixing.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• scramble — to climb or move quickly using one's hands and feet, as down a rough incline.