screw up

verb

  1. 1

    twist into a strained configuration

    screw up one's face

  2. 2

    make more intense

    Emotions were screwed up

  3. 3

    screw or turn higher

  4. 4

    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

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