mess sb up
— phrasal verb with mess uk/mes/us/mes/verb
(CAUSE PROBLEMS)
to cause someone to suffer emotional and mental problems:
Drugs can really mess you up.
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Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side of your face idiom
- bite
- burn
- haunt
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- take sb aback
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
(INJURE)
US slang to hit someone repeatedly so that they are badly injured
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- pound
- pummel
- put the boot in idiom
- swing
- thump
- whack
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