foul up

Questions about foul up

What does foul up mean?

foul up means "make a mess of, destroy or ruin".

What is another word for foul up?

Close synonyms include botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foul up a common word?

foul up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.