ball up
Scrunch into sphere
To ball up is to crumple or compress something into a ball shape: She balled up the paper and threw it away.
It also means to bungle or confuse thoroughly: I really balled up that presentation.
Something that's balled up is tangled, confused, or ruined.
The noun ball-up describes a confused mess or blunder.
Soft compressed mass
- scrunchCrush compactly
- crinkleSmall fold or rustle
- creaseLine from folding
- wrinkleSurface fold or crease
rumple · crush · squeeze · compact · fold · bunch · clump · roll
Do badly, err
- screw upMake a mistake badly
- botchSpoil through incompetence
- fumbleHandle with clumsy fingers
- blunderFoolish, costly mistake
mishandle · foul up · ruin · spoil · wreck · flub · muff · goof
wad
Soft compressed mass
wrinkle · rumple · crush · squeeze · compact · fold · bunch · clump · roll · compress
mess up
Do badly, err
blunder · mishandle · foul up · ruin · spoil · wreck · flub · muff · goof · mistake
snarl
Hostile vocal threat
ravel · twist · jumble · entangle · kink · gnarl · mess · foul · web · cord
curl up
Draw limbs inward cozily
coil · hunch · crouch · fetal position · anxiety · stress · tension · freeze · seize · constrict
- Australian footballAFL, handball, mark, specky, torpedo
- cheerleadingcheerleader, cheerleaders, cheer squad, spirit squad, pom-poms
ball upflatten out
Make smooth and even
spread out · unfold · smooth out · stretch out · unroll
ball, ballroom, balled, balling, baller, ballgame, ballistic, ballsy, ballers