mess up
mess up {v. phr.}, {slang}, {informal}
1. To cause trouble; to spoil something.
What did you have to mess up my accounts for?
2. To cause someone emotional trauma.
Sue will never get married; she got messed up when she was a teenager.
3. To beat up someone physically.
When Joe came in after the fight with the boys, he was all messed up.
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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
