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screw up in WordNet English dictionary

verb
  1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
    "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
    botch  bodge  bumble  fumble  botch up  muff  blow  flub  screw up  ball up  spoil  muck up  bungle  fluff  bollix  bollix up  bollocks  bollocks up  bobble  mishandle  louse up  foul up  mess up  fuck up 
  2. make more intense
    "Emotions were screwed up"
    heat up  hot up  screw up 
  3. twist into a strained configuration
    "screw up one's face"
    screw up 
  4. screw or turn higher
    screw up 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University


screw up in English Wiktionary

 
  1. (verb) (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
  2. (verb) (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
  3. (verb) (transitive) To twist or crush together.
  4. (verb) (context/transitive/colloquial) To make a mess of; to ruin.
  5. (verb) (context/intransitive/colloquial) To blunder; to make a mistake.
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