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Screw up   /skru əp/   Listen
Screw up

verb
1.
Make more intense.  Synonyms: heat up, hot up.
2.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.  Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, spoil.  "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
3.
Screw or turn higher.
4.
Twist into a strained configuration.






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"Screw up" Quotes from Famous Books



... I should have been. I left to take up my military—accomplishments, for I may not call them 'duties.' But you can hardly forget that I am the only man who ever dared to screw up the Master of Pentecost in his own rooms. While my associates were screwing up the Dean, I was screwing up the Master; it was one of my earliest attempts to be companionable ...
— King John of Jingalo - The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties • Laurence Housman



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