SCREW UP

• (verb) twist into a strained configuration

  "screw up one's face"

• (verb) make more intense

  "Emotions were screwed up"

  synonyms : heat up , hot up

• (verb) screw or turn higher

• (verb) 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"

  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

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