screw up

Verb
  1. Make more intense (synset 200228093)
    "Emotions were screwed up"
    is a type of: compound, deepen, heighten, intensify - make more intense, stronger, or more marked
    same as: heat up, hot up
  2. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin (synset 202533317)
    "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
    is a type of: fail, go wrong, miscarry - be unsuccessful
    same as: 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
  3. Screw or turn higher (synset 201356014)
    is a type of: screw - turn like a screw
  4. Twist into a strained configuration (synset 200034627)
    "screw up one's face"
    is a type of: grimace, make a face, pull a face - contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state

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