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screw up

 
Noun screw up has 1 sense
  1. screwup - the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation; "a typical bureaucratic screwup"
    --1 is a kind of mismanagement, misdirection
    Derived form: verb screw up2
Verb screw up has 4 senses
  1. heat up, hot up, screw up - make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up"
    --1 is one way to intensify, compound, heighten, deepen
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. botch, 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 - 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"
    --2 is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
    Derived form: noun screwup1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
  3. screw up - screw or turn higher
    --3 is one way to
    screw
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  4. screw up - twist into a strained configuration; "screw up one's face"
    --4 is one way to
    grimace, make a face, pull a face
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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