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单词 screwed-up
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screwed-upadj.

Brit. /ˌskruːdˈʌp/, U.S. /ˌskrudˈəp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: English screwed , screw v., up adv.1
Etymology: < screwed, past participle of screw v. + up adv.1, after to screw up at screw v. Phrasal verbs 1.
colloquial.
1. Chiefly British. Of a person's face, features, or expression: twisted or contorted owing to contraction of the facial muscles, typically resulting from stress, effort, pain, or revulsion. Cf. to screw up 6 at screw v. Phrasal verbs 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > distorted
writhen?a1425
girning1447
mowinga1529
writhed1568
mumping1594
antic1595
frowned1598
screwed1609
sour1611
wreathed1645
fluish1674
working1717
screwed-up1728
frownful1771
grimacing1804
quirked1931
1728 Intelligencer No. 8. 3 Thy Screw'd-up Front, thy State Grimace.
1774 J. Granger Suppl. to Biogr. Hist. Eng. 438 The satin cap and formal screwed-up face was..changed for a more natural and unconstrained aspect.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 205 His face invariably wore a pinched, screwed-up expression.
1850 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 218/2 He put the horn to his mouth again for another flourish; but his wife, with screwed-up eyes, snatched it out.
1901 Chambers's Jrnl. 22 June 477/1 The pain took him again, and he fell back.., with a screwed-up face as white as milk.
1971 B. Head Maru i. 43 He had taken to staring at everyone with intense, screwed-up eyes: ‘Do you get the message? I am terribly important.’
2015 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 Apr. (Taste section) 41 Grandma used to dish it [sc. corned beef] up..to a table of young and impressionable palates. Our response was always uncertain, mainly with screwed-up noses.
2. Chiefly British. Of paper, fabric, etc.: crumpled or twisted; crushed into a ball. Cf. to screw up 8b at screw v. Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > [adjective] > wrinkled or creased > crumpled or rumpled
crumpled1535
rumpled1624
rumply1794
scrumpled1813
screwed-up1817
bumfly1887
1817 La Belle Assemblée July 27/2 She was once..caught in disentangling some halfpence from the screwed up paper of a pert shopwoman, to give to a sweeper.
1894 New Rev. Jan. 118 Hester got up and put her little screwed-up ball of a handkerchief in her pocket.
1920 Dyestuffs Sept. 498/1 The color..is applied by means of the tip of a screwed up piece of soft rag.
1983 R. Sutcliff Blue Remembered Hills xii. 91 They..flipped screwed-up toffee papers onto the heads of the orchestra.
2014 M. Parry Rusty & Friends ix. 49 The next hour was spent in vain attempts to say exactly what was needed, and screwed-up pieces of paper soon lay untidily at their feet.
3. Raised or forced to a more intense state or condition; (of nerves) strained. Cf. screw v. 16a(a).In quot. 1924: excessively intricate.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > tension > [adjective]
tautc1275
rigid?a1425
high-strung1653
wound-up1788
stretched1799
high-toned1804
overstrung1810
intense1817
tense1821
high-tuned1827
screwed-up1829
twittery1840
high-keyed1848
strung-up1853
strained1863
tensioned1872
twitchy1874
keyed-up1885
tensed1911
uptight1934
wired1970
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > full of or subject to extreme or excessive > exerted by
straineda1542
overracked1589
overstrained1599
exerted1675
overtasked1828
screwed-up1829
1829 Examiner 9 Aug. 500/1 Such a horrible cannonade, bouncing, and clattering, as we are doomed to sit out, with screwed-up nerves and wincing ears.
1873 Co-operative News 4 Jan. 666/2 Men in trade..impelled by the highly screwed up spirit of competitive struggle.
1907 E. von Arnim Fräulein Schmidt lxxiv. 372 I don't love you..it makes me tired just to think..of the bother of it, of the perpetual screwed-up condition of mind and body to a pitch above the normal.
1924 F. Hopman tr. J. Huizinga Waning Middle Ages viii. 99 The whole genre of Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles..implies, no less than the screwed-up system of courtly love, an attempt to substitute for reality the dream of a happier life.
1960 Soviet Educ. Feb. 56/2 His screwed-up nerves could not stand any more: he rushed headlong into the bathroom and, looking around frightened, locked himself in.
2003 J. Beverley St. Raven xxii. 236 Dread tangled with screwed-up tension, making her want to scream.
4. colloquial (originally U.S.).
a. Spoiled, esp. by being badly managed or handled; messed up, ruined. Also: confused, mistaken. Cf. to screw up 10a at screw v. Phrasal verbs 1, screwed adj. 6a.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > [adjective]
confusec1384
yblent1426
intermellé1487
farraginary1538
puddled1559
confused1576
promiscuous1579
pell-mell1584
ravelleda1586
mingle-mangle1589
rumblingc1598
skimble-skamble1598
huddle1601
plundered1601
promiscual1602
jumbled1611
promiscous1656
bedevilled1755
helter-skelter1785
muddly1829
hugger-mugger1840
wildered1853
pied1870
deurmekaar1871
mixed-up1888
screwed-up1942
snafu1942
scrambled1951
untogether1969
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [adjective]
uncouthc897
uncertaina1325
non-certaina1425
unsurec1445
incertaina1492
uncert1543
ancipitous1652
unsecure?a1685
equivocal1769
problematical1770
screwed-up1942
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged
mangledc1400
shendedc1400
vitiate?a1475
appaired1475
wrack1487
maggleda1522
manka1522
mankeda1522
spiltc1540
massacred1590
through-galled1594
spoiled1598
flawed1608
impaired1611
damaged1771
scathed1791
waterlogged1795
spoilt1816
wrecked1818
injured1857
marred1870
buggered-up1893
messed-up1909
puckerooed1919
dinged1920
trashed1926
mucked-up1930
sheg-up1941
buggered1942
screwed-up1942
mucked-about1966
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adjective]
unrightlyeOE
leasea900
falsec1175
untruec1370
untruefulc1380
erroneousc1400
fallacec1400
wrongc1420
unsubstantialc1455
wrongfulc1470
unrighteous1507
improper1531
perverse1531
mistaken1540
square1549
truthless1568
uncorrect1568
misconceiveda1612
errorous1633
swervinga1638
tralatitious1645
out of the way1676
wrongous1768
aberrated1834
aberrational1837
unsubstantiated1837
unevidenced1842
non-realistic1882
unsubstantiate1890
screwed-up1942
disauthentic1960
1942 C. R. Bond Jrnl. 22 Jan. in T. Anderson Flying Tiger's Diary (1984) iii. 77 It was a completely screwed up mission.
1967 L. Forrester Girl called Fathom xiii. 158 The Capitán is correct to call this ‘a screwed up situation’.
1975 J. E. Levy Cesar Chavez v. iv. 254 The guy's leg was swollen up, and it was blue, and it was really screwed up.
1980 Times 22 Mar. 5/5 This total fantasy about them [sc. ancient societies] being basically modern scientists is really screwed up.
2002 Entertainm. Weekly 20 Sept. 72/1 This good little film about a rich kid's badly screwed-up life.
b. Of a person: in trouble. Also (now chiefly): exhibiting or characterized by emotional or psychological instability; damaged; disturbed. Cf. to screw up 10b at Phrasal verbs 1, screwed adj. 6b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > [adjective]
yblenta1225
amazed?c1225
wory?c1225
mingedc1275
willc1300
distracta1340
confounded1362
confuse1362
distraitc1374
whapedc1374
wilsomea1375
poseletc1390
distraught1393
perplexa1425
wildc1440
wiltc1440
dodemusydc1450
mistedc1450
unclearc1475
mazed1493
perplexeda1500
traversablea1500
mazyc1525
entangled1561
muddy?1571
distraughted1572
moidered1587
wondering1592
puzzled1598
plundered1601
distracted1604
uncollected1613
wildered1642
turbid1647
tosticated1650
fuddled1656
pixie-led1659
puzzling1692
bumbazed1720
maffled1820
obfuscated1822
confused1825
muddly1829
mystified1833
maze1842
obfusticatedc1844
head-scratching1849
clueless1862
flustery1862
befogged1868
deurmekaar1871
mosy1887
skewgee1890
buggered-up1893
confusticated1898
smock-ravelled1904
messed-up1913
screwed-up1943
hung up1945
lost1967
gravelled-
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with
woodc725
woodsekc890
giddyc1000
out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000
witlessc1000
brainsickOE
amadc1225
lunaticc1290
madc1330
sickc1340
brain-wooda1375
out of one's minda1387
frenetica1398
fonda1400
formada1400
unwisea1400
brainc1400
unwholec1400
alienate?a1425
brainless1434
distract of one's wits1470
madfula1475
furious1475
distract1481
fro oneself1483
beside oneself1490
beside one's patience1490
dementa1500
red-wood?1507
extraught1509
misminded1509
peevish1523
bedlam-ripe1525
straughta1529
fanatic1533
bedlama1535
daft1540
unsounda1547
stark raving (also staring) mad1548
distraughted1572
insane1575
acrazeda1577
past oneself1576
frenzy1577
poll-mad1577
out of one's senses1580
maddeda1586
frenetical1588
distempered1593
distraught1597
crazed1599
diswitted1599
idle-headed1599
lymphatical1603
extract1608
madling1608
distracteda1616
informala1616
far gone1616
crazy1617
March mada1625
non compos mentis1628
brain-crazed1632
demented1632
crack-brained1634
arreptitiousa1641
dementate1640
dementated1650
brain-crackeda1652
insaniated1652
exsensed1654
bedlam-witteda1657
lymphatic1656
mad-like1679
dementative1685
non compos1699
beside one's gravity1716
hyte1720
lymphated1727
out of one's head1733
maddened1735
swivel-eyed1758
wrong1765
brainsickly1770
fatuous1773
derangedc1790
alienated1793
shake-brained1793
crack-headed1796
flighty1802
wowf1802
doitrified1808
phrenesiac1814
bedlamite1815
mad-braineda1822
fey1823
bedlamitish1824
skire1825
beside one's wits1827
as mad as a hatter1829
crazied1842
off one's head1842
bemadded1850
loco1852
off one's nut1858
off his chump1864
unsane1867
meshuga1868
non-sane1868
loony1872
bee-headed1879
off one's onion1881
off one's base1882
(to go) off one's dot1883
locoed1885
screwy1887
off one's rocker1890
balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891
meshuggener1892
nutty1892
buggy1893
bughouse1894
off one's pannikin1894
ratty1895
off one's trolley1896
batchy1898
twisted1900
batsc1901
batty1903
dippy1903
bugs1904
dingy1904
up the (also a) pole1904
nut1906
nuts1908
nutty as a fruitcake1911
bugged1920
potty1920
cuckoo1923
nutsy1923
puggled1923
blah1924
détraqué1925
doolally1925
off one's rocket1925
puggle1925
mental1927
phooey1927
crackers1928
squirrelly1928
over the edge1929
round the bend1929
lakes1934
ding-a-ling1935
wacky1935
screwball1936
dingbats1937
Asiatic1938
parlatic1941
troppo1941
up the creek1941
screwed-up1943
bonkers1945
psychological1952
out to lunch1955
starkers1956
off (one's) squiff1960
round the twist1960
yampy1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
out of one's skull1967
whacked out1969
batshit1971
woo-woo1971
nutso1973
out of (one's) gourd1977
wacko1977
off one's meds1986
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > unstable or unbalanced
alienated1529
unsettleda1616
unhinged1732
fucked-up1865
unpoised1872
disturbed1904
screwed-up1943
fouled-up1953
dicked-up1967
fucked1971
screwed1984
1943 Yank 26 Nov. 4/3 Oh, Lord, he thought, whatever I do, I'm a screwed-up sheep.
1974 E. Brawley Rap (1975) ii. xviii. 308 I grew up on army bases all over the world. I'm one of your typical screwed-up army brats, I guess.
1984 D. Barry Babies & Other Hazards Sex iv. 27/1 Every single person born during the 40s, 50s, or 60s is really screwed up.
2011 N. Taylor Signs Life 89 Some woman who was ‘trying to find herself’ through a series of screwed-up relationships.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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