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bollix up

v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]

Usage examples of "bollix up".

In spite of the fact that it seems to bollix up everything from electric lights to moving gears.

Not overly difficult, but he'd have to check his rat line, because this was one operation he didn't want to bollix up, especially if he had thoughts of promotion in the future.

Nothing would bollix up the Seldon Plan worse than having the attention of the entire empire suddenly transfixed on a tiny world near Sirius, asking questions about events two hundred centuries ago!

And we wanted to attack the computer itself, to fundamentally bollix up the way it operated.

However, since Hjordis was bargaining for a thing she desperately wanted, and since he could bollix up her plans best by simply delaying, he decided there was no immediate action necessaryexcept a good, long rest.