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单词 screw up
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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]
regional note: in AM, use crush
3. phrasal verb
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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screw up in British English

verb (tr, adverb)
1. 
to twist out of shape or distort
2. 
to summon up or call upon
to screw up one's courage
3. (also intr) informal
to mishandle or make a mess (of)
4. (often passive) informal
to cause to become very anxious, confused, or nervous
he is really screwed up about his exams
noun screw-up
5.  informal
something mishandled or done badly
6.  informal
a person who habitually fails or mishandles things

screw-up in British English

(ˈskruːˌʌp)
noun informal
1. 
something mishandled or done badly
Someone is going to pay for this screw-up.
2. 
a person who habitually fails or mishandles things

screw up in American English

US
Informal
to make a mess of, as by ineptness; bungle; foul up
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screw-up in American English

(ˈskruˌʌp), ˈscrewˌup (ˈskruˌʌp)
US
noun Informal
1. 
a serious mistake; blunder; mess
2. 
a person who screws up

Chinese translation of 'screw up'

screw up

vt

  1. (Brit) [paper] 把 ... 揉成一团(團) (bǎ ... róuchéng yī tuán)
    美 = crush
  2. (inf, = ruin) 把 ... 弄得一团(團)糟 (bǎ ... nòng de yītuánzāo)

vi

  1. (inf, = fail) 弄糟 (nòngzāo)
    to screw up one's eyes/face 眯起眼睛/皱(皺)起眉头(頭) (mīqǐ yǎnjīng/zhòuqǐ méitóu)
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Nearby words of
screw up

  • screw down
  • screw in
  • screw the lid on tightly
  • screw up
  • screwdriver
  • scribble
  • scribble down

Related terms of
screw up

  • to screw up one's eyes/face
  • screw in
  • screw down
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