| 单词 | screw up |
| 释义 | screw up 1. phrasal verb If you screw up your eyes or your face, you tighten your eye or face muscles, for example because you are in pain or because the light is too bright. She had screwed up her eyes, as if she found the sunshine too bright. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Close your eyes and screw them up tight. [VERB noun PARTICLE] His face screwed up in agony. [VERB PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If you screw up a piece of paper, you squeeze it tightly so that it becomes very creased and no longer flat, usually when you are throwing it away. [British] He would start writing to his family and would screw the letter up in frustration. [VERB noun PARTICLE] He screwed up his first three efforts after only a line or two. [VERB PARTICLE noun] 3. phrasal verb See full dictionary entry for screw To screw something up, or to screw up, means to cause something to fail or be spoiled. [informal] You can't open the window because it screws up the air conditioning. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Get out. Haven't you screwed things up enough already! [VERB noun PARTICLE] Somebody had screwed up; they weren't there. [VERB PARTICLE] |
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