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Screw up

verb

Make more intense. Synonyms: heat up, hot up.

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, spoil. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

Screw or turn higher.

Twist into a strained configuration.

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"Screw up" Quotes from Famous Books

... cheerfully recognized. The district that I inspected was certainly, as I say, for the fit. Efficiency in physical essentials was inculcated—and practised—by the landlord-company, whose constant aim seemed to be to screw up higher and higher the self-respect of its tenants. That the landlord-company was not a band of philanthropists, but a capitalistic group in search of dividends, I would readily admit. But that it should find its profit in the business of improving the standard ...

— Your United States - Impressions of a first visit • Arnold Bennett

... efforts that go with happiness will often induce the feelings and emotions associated therewith. To prove the accuracy of this statement, some morning when you are feeling especially gloomy and unpleasant, look into your mirror and go through the process of trying to make yourself smile. Screw up your features in such a manner as to force the required contractions of the facial muscles. If you continue your efforts long enough you will surely be rewarded by a real smile, and with the sense of good cheer that ...

— Vitality Supreme • Bernarr Macfadden

... said. 'I let Sikitola's men draw first blood. They needed it to screw up their courage. Now they are as ...

— Prester John • John Buchan

... much that his daughter Edith took the carving-fork from him and served out the mutton-chops herself. The mother, from the other end of the table, with tears in her eyes, continually asked me if I would not have something or other, and how I could ever screw up my courage to go about with an absolutely ...

— A Bicycle of Cathay • Frank R. Stockton

... her eyes, although she looked at him steadily. He sprang up from his chair and put his hand on her shoulder. "My poor little girl!" he said, "you feel it. Of course you feel it. You've behaved like a heroine, but you've had to screw up your courage. I don't want you to think of all that. That is why I haven't said anything about ...

— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall

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