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screw up
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Princeton's WordNet
heat up, hot up, screw upverb
make more intense
"Emotions were screwed up"
botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck upverb
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"
screw upverb
screw or turn higher
screw upverb
twist into a strained configuration
"screw up one's face"
Wiktionary
screw upverb
To tighten or secure with screws.
screw upverb
To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
screw upverb
To twist into a contorted state
screw upverb
To make a mess of; to ruin.
screw upverb
To blunder; to make a mistake.
Wikipedia
Screw Up
Screw Up is the 1994 debut studio album by Japanese group Super Junky Monkey. It showcased their fusion of rap, hardcore, punk, and funk music. It was released in Japan and, in 1995, the United States.
ChatGPT
screw up
"Screw up" is an informal phrase which refers to making a mistake or doing something incorrectly. It often involves mishandling a task, creating a problematic situation, or failing to achieve a desired result. The term can be used in a wide range of contexts, from personal to professional scenarios.
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SCREW UP
Screw Up is the 1995 debut full-length album by Japanese group Super Junky Monkey. It showcased their fusion of rap, hardcore, punk, and funk music. It was released in Japan and the United States.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of screw up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of screw up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of screw up in a Sentence
But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.
I had them drive in and stop and shut the car off to look around, at that moment, I gave them the concerned parent/uncle speech. 'This is it. If you screw up, not wearing (a) seat belt, drink and drive, text, get distracted by music or friends, it's over! No second chances, no excuses, no retakes, no do-overs, no goodbyes. Dead.'.
Quinn: Do you know what I have been doing that would have cured me? Fine! I'll tell you. I've been sliding through an interdimensional wormhole seeing how ways people like you can screw up civilization!!!!!!
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.
When people work, they eat out more often. Fast-food chains are the first to benefit because (people entering or returning to the workforce) are going to go for the more affordable stuff, it's hard to screw up breakfast ... everything goes well with bacon.
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