Source : WordNet®
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"