screw up
verb
- 1
twist into a strained configuration
screw up one's face
- 2
make more intense
Emotions were screwed up
- 3
screw or turn higher
- 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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