screw up

Questions about screw up

What does screw up mean?

screw up means "make more intense". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for screw up?

Close synonyms include heat up, hot up, botch, bodge, bumble. 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.

Is screw up a common word?

screw up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.