Verb: make a hash of
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Badly mishandle or ruin something
"I made a hash of the dinner and we had to eat out";
- botch, bodge [Brit, informal], bumble, fumble, botch up [informal], muff [informal], blow [informal], flub [N. Amer, informal], screw up [informal], spoil, muck up [informal], bungle, fluff [informal], bobble [N. Amer], mishandle, louse up [informal], foul up [informal], mess up, butcher, balls up [informal], cock up [Brit, informal], goof up [informal]
Derived forms: made a hash of, makes a hash of, making a hash of