mess with sth
mainly US— phrasal verb with mess uk/mes/us/mes/verb
to make small changes to something, or to move it to a different place, especially not carefully:
He was messing with his bike and then he couldn't fit the parts back together.
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Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- remediation
- revised
- smooth
- troubleshooting
- tune
- tune (sth) up
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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