Screw Up

Definition: Screw Up

Screw Up

Verb

1. Make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up".

2. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.

3. Screw or turn higher.

4. Twist into a strained configuration; "screw up one's face".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Screw Up

Junction

Inosculate; entwine, intwine; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up.

Preparation

Elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture; (aid); hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue; infumate; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress, garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust; (fit); put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.

Strength

Render strong; Adjective: give strength; Noun: strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up, wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on one's legs; vivify; refresh; refect; reinforce, reenforce; (restore).

Crosswords: Screw Up

Honey, I watched you the whole time, and you didn't screw up once! (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Because man, in Russia if you screw up, they don't give you a second chance to explain yourself. (Russkies; writing credit: Alan Jay Glueckman; Sheldon Lettich)

Fact is, mister, you screw up this team, and I'll personally hide-strap you to a pine rail and ship you down the Monon Line! (Hoosiers; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo)

Did I screw up your righteous anger riff? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Groom's Secret Handbook: How Not to Screw Up the Biggest Day of Her Life (reference)

• Ten Ways to Screw Up an Ad Campaign (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• How Many Bands Does It Take to Screw up a Blondie Tribute (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "screw up": screw up one's courage ♦ screw up one's eyes ♦ screw up one's face ♦ To screw up. Additional references.

Albanian

vidhos deri në fund. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стягам (accouter, accoutre, bind, brace, compact, constrain, constrict, do up, gripe, hold in, hoop, impact, lace, lace up, lock, pack, pinch, preen, straiten, tense, tighten, trim, truss), свивам на топка, свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), смачквам на топка, оплесквам (besmear, dash, dub, foozle, foul up, hash, louse up, make a mess, make sad work of, mess, muddle, muff, slobber, spatter, splash, sully), затягам дисциплината на, затягам (clamp, close, cramp, lock, straiten), затварям (case, cicatrize, close, constrain, douse, enclose, gaol, hem, house, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, latch, lock, lock up, mew, obturate, pen, prison, pull to, restrain, seal off, shut, shut away, shut in, shut up, stop, turn off), заключвам (bolt, fasten, key, latch, lock, lock up, prison, shut, shut in), завинтвам (screw, screw down, screw on), притеснявам (discomfort, fidget, incommode, inconvenience, pinch, push, put smb. out, rush, squeeze). (various references)

Czech

zpackat (bitch up, Bumble, bungle, foul up, goof up, muff), zmaèkat (Crinkle, rumple, wrinkle), utáhnout (make too tight), mhouřit. (various references)

Danish

loefte et skib op (to jack up a ship, to screw up a ship). (various references)

Dutch

verprutsen (botch, bungle, spoil), verknoeien (botch, bungle, spoil), verhaspelen (botch, bungle, spoil), modderen (botch, bungle, spoil), knoeien (botch, bungle, defraud, spoil, swindle), beunhazen (botch, bungle, spoil). (various references)

Esperanto

fuŝi (botch, bungle, spoil). (various references)

Faeroese

klombra (botch, bungle, spoil), fesja (botch, bungle, spoil), bongla (botch, bungle, spoil). (various references)

Finnish

hutiloida (botch, bungle, do . . carelessly, scampt, spoil). (various references)

French

pagaille complète, gâcher, fiasco. (various references)

German

scheiße bauen, zusammenkneifen (press together), zusammenknüllen (crumble up, wad), zukneifen (pinch hard, shut tight), verziehen (bring up badly, coddle, drag, draw, forgiven, haul, move away, pamper, pardonned, pet, pucker, pull, pull out of shape, spoil, stretch, thin out, train badly, tug, twist, vorgiven, warp), vermasseln (botch, bungle, fluff, foozle, goof, hash up, louse up, make a mess, mess up, muck up, muddle, muff, queer, ruin, to bungle, to foozle, to fuck up), pfuschen (botch, bungle, come unstuck, fudge, scamp, slip up, spoil), neurotisch machen, kräuseln (Crimp, dimple, frill, frizz, gather, gather in folds, knit, make frizzy, pucker, ruffle, stir, to dimple, to frill, wrinkle), chaos (bedlam, chaos, havoc, mayhem, pandemonium, tangle), anziehen (adjust, allure, apply, attract, be popular, boom, clothe, draw, draw up, dress, get on, hardness, jerk, make the first move, pull, pull in, pull tight, put on, rise, set out, shove on, start moving, start pulling, tighten, to attract, to dress, to tog, tug, wear), anschrauben (screw down, screw on, to screw on). (various references)

Greek 

να στηριχθεί όσο πάει (to screw up spanner-tight), να ενταθεί μέχρι ακινητοποιήσεως (to screw up spanner-tight), ανυψώνω πλοίο με μηχανικά μέσα (to jack up a ship, to screw up a ship). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפשל (blunder, goof, make a hash of it, slip up), פשל�" (blunder). (various references)

Hungarian

felcsavar (coil, lap, scroll, to coil, to furl, to roll, to screw up, to wind up), elfuserál (bungle, foozle, muddle, to bitch, to boss, to botch, to make a mess of sg, to mess up, to muck up, to muddle up, to mull, to muss, to slobber), elbasz (fuck up, to bollix sg up, to bollocks sg up, to cock up). (various references)

Italian

spiegazzare (crease, crumple, crush, get crumpled), mandare in aria. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� め上�'る (to put the screws on, to screw up), 勇�'�"す (to screw up one's courage, to take heart). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しめあ�'る (to put the screws on, to screw up), ゆう�'�"す (to screw up one's courage, to take heart). (various references)

Manx

doon lesh scroddyn, cruinnaghey (assemblage, assemblage persons, beseige, congregation, enclose, focus, gather, head, hive, huddle, mass, raise, round, sum up, troop), chionney (clench, cog, erection, fasten, grit, inflate, momentum, oblige, press, pressurize, pump up, put on, straighten, strain, tauten, tighten). (various references)

Pig Latin

ewscray upay

Portuguese

estragar (blunder, botch, bungle, deface, deteriorate, dilapidate, disconcert, foul up, impair, injure, mar, mess, muck, muddle, overset, poison, queer, rub, spoil), amassar (crease, crumble, form, knead, mold, mould, tousle). (various references)

Romanian

a-şi lua inima în dinţi (screw up one's courage, take one's courage in both hands). (various references)

Russian 

завинчивать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabrljati (make a mess, mull, put one's foot in it), zašrafiti, upropastiti (blight, destroy, havoc, make a hash of cutting, muck up, muff, murder, ruin, spoil, vitiate, wrack), nasilno dizati cene. (various references)

Spanish

arrugar (crease, furrow, line, pucker, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, seam, shrivel, wrinkle, wrinkles). (various references)

Swedish

skrynkla ihop (scrunch), skruva igen. (various references)

Turkish

sikmek (ball, fuck, screw), yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, heighten, hike up, increase, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, run up, scale up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), içine etmek (fuck, fuck up, piss on smth., spoil things), berbat etmek (ball up, bitch, bitch up, botch, bring to ruin, bungle, cast a cloud on smth., cloud, crab, fluff, fuck, fuck up, make nonsense of, mess things up, mess up, piss on smth., play the deuce with, ruin, spoil, vitiate), azdirmak (botch, bungle, spoil), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), altüst etmek (agitate, bedevil, clutter, clutter up, depolarise, disappoint, disorganize, disturb, knock galley-west, make havoc of, overset, overturn, play havoc with, play the deuce with, ransack, run upside down, turn about, turn around, turn under, Upend, upset, upturn, work havoc). (various references)

Ukrainian

загвинчувати. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: screwup.

-1 letter: spruce.

-2 letters: crews, cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, puces, purse, screw, sprue, sucre, super.

-3 letters: ceps, crew, crus, cues, cups, cure, curs, cusp, ecru, ecus, pecs, pews, puce, pure, purs, recs, reps, rues, ruse, scup, spec, spew, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, user.

-4 letters: cep, cue, cup, cur, ecu, ers, pec, per, pes, pew, pur.

+1 letter: screwups.

+4 letters: cowpunchers.