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to screw up
to screw up
1. transitive.
a. To bring to a higher or more exalted state or condition; to raise, elevate.Frequently in metaphors alluding to to screw up sense 1b. Cf. sense 16a(a).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)]
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to get upa1500
to screw up?1614
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?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses ix. 136 His flocks he draue Vp to the mountaines; and occasion gaue For me to vse my wits; which to their height, I striu'd to skrew vp.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 127 Matters being scrued up to this height.
1713 M. Henry Wks. (1853) I. 168 To screw up the delights of sense to a greater degree of pleasureableness.
1733 P. Middleton (title) A Dissertation upon the Power of the Church; in a Middle Way, betwixt those who screw it up to the highest.
1829 W. H. Smyth Life & Services Captain P. Beaver 303 Men cannot, like machines, be at all moments screwed up to the utmost possible point of performance.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 269 To screw up their exertions to an unnatural pitch.
1937 E. S. Bates Inside Out II. iii. 134 It must make life difficult for any normal person to have someone with Much's brain- and will-power about, expecting them to screw their efforts up to the same pitch.
1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 9 June Scene after scene screwed up to the pitch of melodrama and beyond.
b. To tighten (the strings of a musical instrument), in order to alter the pitch, by turning the tuning pegs or keys. Also: to tighten the strings of (a musical instrument). Also figurative and in figurative contexts.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > tuning or intonation > tune [verb (transitive)] > tune strings
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straina1387
string1530
to set down1565
wrench1577
to wind up1608
wind1612
to screw up1625
to set up1643
screw1657
1625 T. Wise Animaduersions Lillies Gram. 12 Whence hath a tone its name? From the Greeke word τείνειν, to screw vp, or slacken the strings of an instrument of musick.
1648 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 22 sig. Cc4v Some device, or other to scrue up more or lesse, those Fiedle strings of the State, the Purse-strings of the City.
1737 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Peg, a small Piece of Wood used sometimes to screw up or tighten the Strings of a Musical Instrument.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. v. 18 Had he been a lover of such kind of concord as arises from two such instruments being put into exact tune,—he would instantly have skrew'd up his [sc. face], to the same pitch.
1879 Musical Times July 358/2 The fragile condition of the soundboard does not permit of the strings being screwed up so as to produce the original pitch.
1893 Strad Dec. (Special Suppl.) 184/2 Screw up the highest string as far as it will conveniently bear without breaking.
1914 Opera News 5 Dec. If he screwed up the string until the tension was exactly double, he would produce an octave higher.
2016 Sc. Daily Mail (Nexis) 13 May (Features section) 58 Poor Silver's nerves were banjo strings Screwed up a notch too tight.
c. reflexive. To work oneself up to or into a particular emotional or mental state. Also: to summon the courage or determination needed for an action or task.In figurative context in quot. 1631.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (reflexive)] > for effort
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to work up1820
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to screw up1841
1631 W. Saltonstall Picturæ Loquentes sig. C8 If his company screw themselves up to an excessive straine of mirth; he proves amongst them but like a jarring string to a consort of musicke.
1696 C. Leslie Snake in Grass xi. 169 Men, in whose Power it is to screw themselves up to such Blasphemus heights of Enthusiasm.
1739 H. Stebbing Brief Acct. Prayer 134 It may be possible for Men..to screw themselves up into a Fit of Devotion, whilst at the same Time their Lusts remain unmortified.
1753 tr. L. A. de la Beaumelle Reflections 190 To screw themselves up painfully to the decently wearisome pitch of starch deliberations..in those conversations where liberty, confidence and gaiety ought to reign.
1841 R. W. Emerson Prudence in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 239 He..must screw himself up to resolution.
1868 C. Rossetti Let. in Life Anne Gilchrist (1887) 173 I am not certain that in any case I should have screwed myself up to accept it [sc. an invitation], as I am shy amongst strangers.
1939 S. G. Lubbock Mem. M. R. James 19 Ordinary folk, when sitting down to a job, screw themselves up to it, put aside matters of less importance.
1974 J. Raban Soft City vi. 143 It must take a lot to screw oneself up to place an advertisement of this kind.
2015 C. Bergen Fine Romance (2016) 177 I'd drop her off at school and watch her screwing herself up to walk into her classroom.
d. To bring (a person or group) to a particular point or state, esp. an emotional or psychological state. Also: to arouse or build up (a quality, emotion, etc.) in oneself.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > have an effect on [verb (transitive)]
gravec1374
bitec1400
rapt?1577
infecta1586
to come (also get, go) home to1625
to screw up1644
strike1672
strikea1701
impress1736
to touch up1796
to burn into1823
knock1883
hit1891
impressionize1894
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] > create an emotion in oneself
to screw up1644
to get up1826
1644 J. Howell Mercurius Hibernicus 23 The Spaniard was forced to declare the Hollanders Free-states, before they could be brought to treat of a truce: And now the Catalans screw him up almost to as high conditions.
1672 T. Comber Compan. Temple sig. C1v When we need Variety and Novel Expressions, to skrew us up into a Devotion.
1702 G. Farquhar Love & Business 142 Will the Turns and Surprizes [of the Plot]..be sufficient to..screw up the Attention of a Rover, and fix him to the Stage?
1797 J. Madison Let. 29 Jan. in T. Jefferson Papers (2002) XXIX. 280 A push will be made to screw up the P[resident] to that point before he quits the office.
1823 Examiner 272/2 The first series of calculations by which the Bourbon government was screwed up to undertake this awful..business.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Vision of Sin in Poems (new ed.) II. 217 Let me screw thee up a peg; Let me loose thy tongue with wine.
1885 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 25 May The poor invalid..must pause to screw his courage up before he can enter in at the gates.
1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep v. 78 This screwed Valdemar up to the point of action.
1969 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 5 Mar. 5 d/4 One reporter screwed up his nerve and walked into the room.
2016 Eureka (Calif.) Times Standard (Nexis) 26 Feb. a4 It took me over a year after I first embraced being trans to screw up the courage to enter a women's room.
e. To develop or change (a system or concept) into something more objectionable, more dangerous, etc. Obsolete.
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1738 D. Neal Hist. Puritans IV. ii. 47 I am against screwing up Monarchy into Tyranny.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 213 Or, rigidly screwing up right into wrong, did they convert a legal claim into a vexatious extortion? View more context for this quotation
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. IV. viii. xiv. 215 This may be done..by jurisprudential construction, screwing up misdemeanours into felonies.
2. transitive. To tighten or adjust (a screw, peg, etc.) by turning.In figurative context in quot. 1635.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with screws > tighten
to screw up1635
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. Invoc. 1 Rowze thee, my soul;..Skrue up the heightned pegs Of thy Sublime Theorboe foure notes higher.
1793 Monthly Rev. May 29 A spring under the head of the screw that binds in the centre pin, to prevent that screw from being screwed up too tight.
1840 C. S. M. Bury Hist. Flirt II. vii. 257 He screwed up the pegs of his guitar.
1875 M. N. Forney Catech. Locomotive xxvi. 469 Great care must be exercised not to screw the nuts up too hard.
1941 Pop. Mech. June 118/2 To level the table, just screw the bolt up or down as required.
1999 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 28 Aug. (Employment section) 1 A large part of Allan Gray's work is mundane, particularly when the job is just screwing up bolts.
3. transitive. To raise (a payment, price, rent, etc.) to an exacting or extortionate figure.
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1654 E. Nicholas Let. 13 Nov. in Papers (1892) II. 126 He is now only bussy to scrue up his pension by Lord Percy,..and he hath gott an order to be this day paid two pounds.
a1657 W. Bradford Hist. Plymouth Plantation in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1856) 4th Ser. III. 289 He scrued up his poore old father in law's accounte to above 200li. and brought it on ye generall accounte.
1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 223 The Rents of..Ireland,..have been of late so enormously raised, and screwed up.
1757 Poison Detected vii. 66 The farmers complain of scanty crops; the corn-dealers.., to screw up the price, urge its necessity with concerted arguments.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. vii. 209 While some of my tenants appear to pay nominal rents..others are screwed up higher than any man's in the country.
1894 Economist 3 Feb. 135/3 It is never the practice of the Bank to take advantage of its position as the Government banker to screw up rates unduly.
1954 Manch. Guardian 21 May 8/1 The Coal Board's tiny profit on last year's working is simply the result of screwing up the price of coal a notch ahead of wages and other costs.
1995 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 20 Jan. 43 The net result will be the necessity for the Reserve Bank to screw up interest rates aggressively.
4. transitive. To oppress or exploit (a person, esp. a tenant) by demanding high rents, taxes, or other payments. Obsolete.An earlier example could be shown by quot. a1643 at sense 18b: see note at that sense.
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the mind > possession > taking > extortion > practise extortion on [verb (transitive)]
ransom?a1425
to poll and pill1528
exact1534
bloodsuck?1541
extort1561
rack1576
flay1584
shave1606
wire-draw1616
punisha1626
sponge1631
squeeze1639
screwa1643
to screw up1655
bleed1680
torture1687
to screw down1725
to shake down1872
to squeeze (someone) until the pips squeak1918
to bleed white1935
rent1956
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion ii. 28 If he had added any thing to the fortune she brought him, it was but by cousening and screwing up his Clients.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) To Screw one up, to exact upon one, or Squeeze one in a Bargain or Reckoning.
1702 G. Farquhar Love & Business 67 The Lover..sends down immediately to his Steward to screw up his Tenants to due Payments.
1710 S. Centlivre Man's Bewitch'd v. 54 I cou'd scorn the Poor, and screw up my Tenants.
1845 Evid. Commissioners Law & Pract. Occup. Land Ireland: Pt. I 920 in Parl. Papers XIX. 57 Mr. Mitchell..had screwed them up in many little ways; for example, if a man owed £1 13s. 7d. rent,..he..raised it to £1 14s.
1894 Parl. Deb. 4th Ser. 23 1177/1 Irishmen did not pay as much taxation on alcoholic liquors.., and he seemed to think they ought to screw up the Irish taxpayer.
1909 Public 24 Sept. 929/2 They have piled up rents and screwed up tenants in renewals of leases with impunity.
5. transitive.
a. To compress or hold tightly using an instrument operated by screwing, such as a vice or press. Also: to operate or adjust (a press, vice, clamp, or other instrument) by tightening the screw mechanism.
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1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xii. 208 And screw your Work a little lightly up: Then..you may without more ado screw up your Work tight.
1825 C. F. Partington Printer's Compl. Guide 205 The compositor will make his measure to the number of pica m's directed,..by laying them flat-ways in the composing stick, and then screwing it up.
1898 Lady's Realm 5 260/2 Screw up the book in the laying press with the back projecting.
1909 F. H. Selden Elem. Cabinetwork i. 62 Screw the clamps up a little and examine the joint carefully.
1981 L. S. Young Bookbinding & Conservation by Hand vi. 82 Screw the book up in a press as described.
2009 T. Boyde Wolf & Trojan Horse vi. 60 He hadn't screwed up the vice tight enough and the wire flew out.
b. To compress the body of (a woman) in a tightly-laced corset. Obsolete.
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1785 T. Holcroft tr. Comtesse de Genlis Tales Castle I. 19 Ridiculous vanity made her bear..to be screwed up till she could scarcely breathe.
1832 Day 5 May 2/1 When buttoned I couldna say but I felt mysell like a leddy screwed up in corsets.
1868 H. S. Stowe in Our Young Folks Apr. 242 My advice is, that you begin gradually screwing her up; get her corsets ready, with plenty of whalebone and a good tough lace.
6. transitive. To contract the facial muscles around (the mouth, eyes, or nose), typically as an expression of emotion; to contort (the face or features). Also occasionally intransitive: to wrinkle. Cf. sense 4b.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > face with expression [verb (transitive)] > distort
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1692 Friendly Monitor 58 These are as certainly wrong'd in their Reputation, as a Man would be in his Features, who..skrewing up his Nose, should have a Painter..transmit his Picture to Posterity under all those Deformities.
1728 J. Oldmixon Bouhours' Arts Logick & Rhetorick Pref. p. xxii I defy any one to speak it, without making a prim Face, and screwing up his Mouth like pretty Miss at a Boarding School.
1775 D. Garrick Let. 27 Nov. (1963) III. 998 My Elder Brother was screwing up his Features to a parting ditty.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xvi. 159 Jo screws up his mouth into a whistle.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xxviii Laurie screwed up his face and obeyed with a gingerly peck at each little cheek that..made the baby squeal.
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius ii. 32 Mr. Barker screwed up his eyes and put out his jaw.
1916 Continent 7 Sept. 1173/1 Virginia Nelle's little nose screwed up seriously and she went to work.
1995 V. W. Wesley Devil's gonna get Him (1996) ii. 16 She screwed her mouth up into a kid's pout.
2003 R. Liddle Too Beautiful for You (2004) 161 In fact he's quite good looking, sort of like Jude Law if you screw your eyes up and look from a distance.
7. transitive. To close (a coffin, window, etc.) and secure with screws. Also: †to shut (a dead person) in a coffin, securing the lid with screws (obsolete). Cf. to screw down 4 at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > by nailing or screwing
enclowc1430
to nail up1530
to screw up1761
to screw down1762
1761 ‘Helter van Scelter’ Schemer in London Chron. 7–10 Mar. 237/3 The second night after my decease, I was by the undertaker screw'd up in the coffin.
1767 Ann. Reg. 1766 Chron. 99/1 Mrs. Bradford..revived just as the coffin was going to be screwed up.
1813 Universal Mag. Feb. 169/2 He very quietly wiped his eyes, and said, ‘Carpenter, screw up the coffin again.’
1899 C. Barmby James Cope ix. 98 I told Bates to screw him up again. A man don't look like an angel when he's been electrocuted.
1919 C. Mackenzie Sylvia & Michael vii. 290 The windows were screwed up; the door into the corridor was locked.
2015 M. Abramović in H. U. Obrist Lives Artists 270 The priest..came with two huge screws and gave them to the children to screw up the coffin.
8. transitive.
a. Originally: to twist (the hair) tightly, esp. using curl papers or pins, in order to produce corkscrew curls. Later: to pull back (the hair) tightly, twisting it into a bun, ponytail, etc.
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1779 Weekly Mag. 17 Nov. 172/2 Having now served his purpose, I [sc. a quire of paper] was torn into papers to screw up his curls at night.
1786 Lounger No. 56. 204 He screwed up my hair till I thought I should have fainted with the pain..because he said that a hundred little curls were now become the Ton.
1831 O. W. Holmes My Aunt 30 They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins.
1895 Speaker 26 Oct. 441/2 Englishwomen..screw up their hair every evening with portions of the Daily Telegraph.
1919 W. De Morgan Old Madhouse ii. xxv. 395 What an injustice this girl did herself in screwing her hair up so tight all day.
1991 C. Osborn Warriors & Maidens 76 In the daytime she screws her hair up in a fat knot and wears frowsy print dresses.
2012 S. M. Hall Breaking Circle viii. 105 She..screwed her hair up into a ponytail and stowed her mobile in the front pocket of the hoodie.
b. To twist (paper) spirally; to crush or crumple (paper, clothing, etc.) into a compressed mass. Also: to wrap (salt, tea, or other loose goods) in a cone or twist of paper. Cf. sense 6a(b).
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the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > make spiral or helical
snail1605
convert1782
to screw up1827
corkscrew1837
spiralize1851
turbana1861
spiral1876
1827 W. Hone Table Bk. I. 95/1 Carrying a bit of snuff, screwed up in paper.
1890 Homestead (Des Moines, Iowa) 7 Feb. 15/2 Screwing up the paper and lighting one end.
1957 J. J. Abraham Surgeon's Journey 21 Two teaspoonfuls of tea screwed up in a paper cone.
1991 M. Nicholson Martha Jane & Me (1992) vii. 65 She wriggled out of her clothes, whipping her underclothes into her bag, screwing them up into small bundles.
2012 Scunthorpe Tel. (Nexis) 13 Sept. 73 He would..scribble a couple of lines, study them for a moment or two and then screw the paper up into a ball and throw it over his shoulder.
c. To twist or wring with the fingers or hands. Obsolete.
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1853 C. Dickens Bleak House viii. 74 They all pinched me at once, and in a dreadfully expert way: screwing up such little pieces of my arms that I could hardly forbear crying out.
1904 E. Post Flight of Moth vii. 111 As we went down the avenue, he was still standing, screwing his moustache up on his cheek bones.
9. transitive. To produce, attain, or elicit with an effort. Now rare.
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1832 Satirist 23 Dec. 412/4 Higgins screwed up a laugh at this ‘palpable hit’.
1898 J. B. Wollocombe From Morn till Eve ii. 15 Gillard..saw his opponent in front of him, doing his utmost to screw up a trot.
1917 Commerc. Telegraphers' Jrnl. Apr. 119/1 The poor bonus boobs manage to screw up a smile once a week, viz., Fridays.
1960 C. W. Gardiner Answer to Life is No vii. 94 Today I screwed up enough money to pay the telephone account of my top-floor tenants.
10. colloquial (originally U.S.).Perhaps originally as a euphemism for to fuck up (see quot. 1946 for 10c and cf. to fuck up at fuck v. Phrasal verbs 1). See also sense 6b.
a. transitive. To make a mess of, spoil, ruin; to mismanage, mishandle.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
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shendOE
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to do awayOE
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defeat1474
perish1509
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to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
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extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
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stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
1933 Amer. Weekly in San Antonio (Texas) Light 6 Aug. 16/6 If the bullets don't check, blame it on me. Say I screwed up the detail.
1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xix. 176 It really screws up my sex life something awful.
1981 P. Niesewand Word of Gentleman xxvii. 188 Military men usually screw things up..and the people are bloody glad to see the back of them.
1993 New Mexico Daily Lobo 18 Feb. (Detoor section) 4/3 The goofy Martin and his smooth talking partner Kim..screw up the deal and ultimately their lives.
2005 M. Radcliffe Northern Sky 44 Some of us do indeed have things worked out and don't go through life screwing everything up.
b. transitive. To damage or disturb (a person), esp. psychologically; to confuse; to cause problems for.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > perplexity, bewilderment > act of perplexing > confuse, perplex, bewilder [verb (transitive)]
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confusec1350
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disorientate1728
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unharmonize1797
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unballast1836
stomber1841
throw1844
serpentine1850
unbalance1856
tickle1865
fog1872
bumfuzzle1878
wander1897
to put off1909
defeat1914
dither1919
befuddle1926
ungear1931
to screw up1941
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? ix. 233 He says that strike screwed us up good.
1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xviii. 382 He said that women's lib had screwed up his wife so much that she divorced him.
1993 Sports Illustr. 20 Dec. 83/3 Guys like Vince and Eddie copped this attitude that reporters were there only to screw up the team.
2002 Independent 19 Nov. 17/7 The same applies to heroin—which, as every child of my generation knows, screws you up.
c. intransitive. To make a (serious) mistake; to blunder; to fail.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > blunder [verb (intransitive)]
shail1528
blunder1711
floor1835
to make a bloomer1889
pull1913
to drop a brick1916
boob1935
to put up a black1939
goof1941
to screw up1942
to drop a bollock1948
to drop a clanger1948
to cock up1974
1942 Yank 23 Dec. 19 You screw up on the drill field! You goof off at inspection.
1946 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 51 419 The common obscene expression which has the meaning in some way or another to bungle a job or to make a bad choice... There are a few acceptable substitutes such as ‘screw up’.
1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha 83 Did I screw up by admitting that you knew about the package?
1992 TV Quick 19 Dec. (Central Region ed.) 117/2 This contrived tale of a missile designer..who screws up on a small but vital part of a new supertank.
2012 E. Laybourne Monument 14 (2013) iii. 35 He was always watching everyone, waiting for them to screw up, so he could point it out.
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