screwed

Meaning

Adj

1. (mildly, slang, vulgar) Beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger.
2. (British, dated, slang) Intoxicated.

Verb

simple past and past participle of screw

screw

• Noun
• Verb

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Synonyms

slightly tight

broke

changed

converted

damaged

done for

fucked

out of luck

tipsy

fucked-up

be turned

bad

👎

radicated

Translations

fotut

verschraubt

avvitato

gelinkt

geschraubt

jodido

avvitata

mucksmäuschenstill

verwurzelt

putejat

verschraubten

verschraubte

fastiguejat

gewurzelt

mäuschenstill

Etymology

From screw + -ed.
* The modern sense of screwed originates in the mid-1600s with a sense of to screw as a means of "exerting pressure or coercion", probably in reference to instruments of torture (e.g. thumbscrews). It quickly gained a wider general sense of "in a bind; in unfortunate inescapable circumstances". When the verb screw gained a sexual connotation in the early 1700s, it joined the long-lasting association of sexual imagery as a metaphor for domination, leading to screwed gaining synonyms like fucked and shagged. On a more general note, this is a prime example of the frequent tendency for verb participles to evolve into participial adjectives.
* The sense meaning "intoxicated" is from the early 1800s, and is associated with the term screwy, and the idiom to have a screw loose.