screw

1. 1.

   have sexual intercourse with

   “This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”

   “Adam knew Eve”

   “Were you ever intimate with this man?”

   Synonymssleep togetherroll in the haylovemake outmake lovesleep withget laidhave sexknowdo itbe intimatehave intercoursehave it awayhave it off

   Broadercopulate

   Narrowertakefornicate

   archaism

2. 2.

   turn like a screw

   Broaderrevolve

   Narrowerscrew up
3. 3.

   cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion

   “drive in screws or bolts”

   Synonymsdrive in

   Broaderrevolve
4. 4.

   tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions

   “Screw the bottle cap on”

   Antonymsunscrew

   Broadertighten
5. 5.

   defeat someone through trickery or deceit

   Synonymscheatchouseshaftchicanejockey

   Broaderbeat

Other forms of screw

plural

screws·

past tense

screwed·

present participle

screwing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about screw

What does screw mean?

screw means "someone who guards prisoners". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in screw?

screw has 1 syllable: screw. In IPA it is /ˈskɹu/.

What is another word for screw?

Close synonyms include prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, turnkey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of screw?

The recorded antonyms are unscrew.

Is screw a common word?

screw is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with screw?

1 word rhymes with screw. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.