· make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up"
Hypernym(s): intensify, compound, heighten, deepen
· 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"
Synonym(s): botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch_up, muff, blow, flub, ball_up, spoil, muck_up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix_up, bollocks, bollocks_up, bobble, mishandle, louse_up, foul_up, mess_up, fuck_up
Hypernym(s): fail, go_wrong, miscarry
· screw or turn higher
Hypernym(s): screw
· twist into a strained configuration; "screw up one's face"
Hypernym(s): grimace, make_a_face, pull_a_face