to dress or decorate in a flashy, showy, or tasteless way
to corrupt something by adding inferior substances, especially to reduce its purity or quality
looking messy, wet, and soiled, as if having been pulled through mud or rain
to do a task badly or carelessly, causing mistakes or damage
to handle a task or activity clumsily, often causing damage or problem
to burn something so much that it turns into charcoal or carbon
an extremely intense and destructive fire
to preserve something, like food, by ridding it of all its moisture
to completely destroy or remove something
to ruin or damage something's appearance, particularly by writing or sketching on it
a person or thing that ruins an otherwise positive or enjoyable situation
to cause problems, often by ruining or interrupting something that was planned
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