screw up

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verb

1. make more intense (Freq. 1)
- Emotions were screwed up
• Syn:
heat up, hot up
• Hypernyms:
intensify, compound, heighten, deepen
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. 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
• Syn:
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up,
muff, blow, flub, ball up, spoil, muck up,
bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up,
bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
• Derivationally related forms:
fuckup (for: fuck up), mess-up (for: mess up), foul-up (for: foul up), fluff (for: fluff), bungle (for: bungle), bungler (for: bungle), spoil (for: spoil), spoilage (for: spoil), spoiling (for: spoil), ballup (for: ball up), screwup, flub (for: flub), fumbler (for: fumble), bumbler (for: bumble), botcher (for: botch), botch (for: botch)
• Hypernyms:
fail, go wrong, miscarry
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
3. screw or turn higher
• Hypernyms:
screw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. twist into a strained configuration
- screw up one's face
• Hypernyms:
grimace, make a face, pull a face
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something