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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  screw up
       v 1: make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up" [syn: heat up,
             hot up]
       2: 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" [syn: botch, 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]
       3: screw or turn higher
       4: twist into a strained configuration; "screw up one's face"

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  screw up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
     2 (lb en transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate
  levels.
     3 (lb en transitive) To raise or summon up.
     4 (lb en transitive) To twist into a contorted state.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  screw up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
     2 (lb en transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate
  levels.
     3 (lb en transitive) To raise or summon up.
     4 (lb en transitive) To twist into a contorted state.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  screw up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
     2 (lb en transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate
  levels.
     3 (lb en transitive) To raise or summon up.
     4 (lb en transitive) To twist into a contorted state.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  screw up
     vb.
     1 (lb en transitive) To tighten or secure with screws.
     2 (lb en transitive) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate
  levels.
     3 (lb en transitive) To raise or summon up.
     4 (lb en transitive) To twist into a contorted state.

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  screw up
     Englanti vb.
     1 ruuvata
     2 (AmE) epäonnistua, mokata, pilata, tyriä

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  screw up /skɹˈuː ˈʌp/
  zašroubovat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  screw up /skɹˈuː ˈʌp/
  šroubovat

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  screw (up) /skɹˈuː ˈʌp/
  zašroubovat

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  screw up /skɹˈuː ˈʌp/
   [coll.] es vermurksen, es vermasseln, es verpatzen, es vergeigen, es verkorksen, es versemmeln, es verpfuschen  [ugs.]
        "royally screw up"  - es völlig vermasseln
     Synonyms: foul things up, foul up
  
   see: fouling things up, fouling up, screwing up, fouled things up, fouled up, screwed up
  

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  screw up /skɹˈuː ˈʌp/ 
  1. mämmätä, möhliä, tyriä 2.
  colloquial: to blunder
   3.
  colloquial: to make a mess of; to ruin
  2. kiristää, kiristää äärimmilleen
  to raise to extortionate levels
  3. ruuvata, ruuvata kiinni
  to tighten or secure with screws
  4. vääntää
  to twist into a contorted state

From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-fra ]

  screw up /skruːʌp/
  gâcher

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  screw up /skɹˈuː ˈʌp/
  zatvoreni vijak

From English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-nld ]

  screw up /skruːʌp/
  beunhazen, knoeien, modderen, verhaspelen, verknoeien, verprutsen

From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-por ]

  screw up /skruːʌp/
  borrar, fazer às pressas, trabalhar mal

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "screw up":
     abreast, acquainted, affix, amiss, anarchy, anchor, annex, attach,
     au courant, back, ball up, belay, bitch, bitch up, bloomer,
     blooper, blow, bobble, bollix, bollix up, bonehead into it,
     bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob stunt, boot, brace, bugger,
     bugger up, bum, bungle, cement, chaos, cinch, clamp, clinch,
     complicate, confound, confuse, confusion, cook, cramp, crappy,
     dissatisfactory, drop a brick, drop the ball, duff, dumb trick,
     embrangle, engraft, entangle, fabulous formless darkness, fasten,
     fix, flub, fluff, fool mistake, foozle, foul up, foul-up, fumble,
     garble, goof, goof up, graft, grapple, gum up, hash up, hassle,
     howler, implicate, involve, jumble, knit, knot, license, louse up,
     louse-up, make fast, mess, mess up, misrule, mix up, mix-up, moor,
     morass, muck up, muck-up, muddle, muff, perplex, pi,
     play hell with, play hob with, poor, pratfall, pull a boner, punk,
     put to, queer, ramify, ravel, reinforce, riffle, rigidify, rotten,
     scramble, screamer, secure, set, set to, shore up, shuffle, sink,
     snafu, snarl, snarl up, spoil, stiffen, strengthen, tangle, tense,
     tighten, trice up, trim, tumble, unsatisfactory, up-to-the-minute,
     wrong
  
  

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     拧紧,把…揉成一团;使紧张,搞糟

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