balling up
Clenching into fists
Balling up means crumpling or wadding something into a ball shape: She balled up the paper and threw it away.
It also describes becoming tangled or knotted: The fishing line kept balling up.
Figuratively, to ball something up is to bungle it badly: He really balled up that presentation.
- tanglingIntertwining into disorder
- crumplingCrushing into folds
- crumple upCompress by crushing
- compressingForcing into less space
- panickingExperiencing acute terror
frustrating · flustering · knotting · tied in knots · rolling · snarling · scrunching · squeezing · overwhelming · intertwining · bundling · wadding · stressing · muddling · making a mess · screwing up · complicating · worrying
balling upflattening
Reducing to evenness
spreading out · unfurling · unfolding · straightening · stretching out
balling upsorting out
Resolving confusion or disorder
fixing · untangling · organizing · clearing up · rectifying