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English verb: screw up | |||
| 1. | screw up (change) make more intense | ||
| Samples | Emotions were screwed up. | ||
| Synonyms | heat up, hot up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | compound, deepen, heighten, intensify | ||
| 2. | screw up (social) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | ||
| Samples | I botched the dinner and we had to eat out. The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement. | ||
| 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 | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | fail, go wrong, miscarry | ||
| 3. | screw up (contact) screw or turn higher | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | screw | ||
| 4. | screw up (body) twist into a strained configuration | ||
| Samples | Screw up one's face. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | grimace, make a face, pull a face | ||
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