screw up

Meaning

1. (transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
2. (transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
3. (transitive) To raise or summon up.
4. (transitive) To twist into a contorted state.
5. (dated, transitive) To squint.
6. (colloquial, transitive) To make a mess of; to ruin.
7. (colloquial, intransitive) To blunder; to make a mistake.

Synonyms

bungle

botch

fuck up

foul up

mess up

blow

ball up

flub

spoil

bodge

bollocks up

botch up

hot up

screw

knit

muster up

pluck up

mishandle

muck up

muff

summon up

do badly

bumble

pucker

fluff

louse up

fumble

bobble

twist

heat up

bollix

wrench

🔧

bollocks

wrinkle

bollix up

scrunch up

tense up

make eyelids quiver

scringe

make to squirm

scamp one’s work

screw home

accelerate

chippin

agitate

blunder

bring together

brisk

contort

crick

Translations

gâcher

beunhazen

foirer

bousiller

verhaspelen

borrar

niquer

👉👌

vermasseln

foutre

knoeien

modderen

verknoeien

verprutsen

estragar