- screwup - the complete mismanagement or mishandling of a situation; "a typical bureaucratic screwup"
--1 is a kind of mismanagement, misdirection
Derived form: verb screw up2
- heat up, hot up, screw up - make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up"
--1 is one way to intensify, compound, heighten, deepen
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
--2 is one way to fail, go wrong, miscarry
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun screwup1
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- screw up - screw or turn higher
--3 is one way to screw
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- screw up - twist into a strained configuration; "screw up one's face"
--4 is one way to grimace, make a face, pull a face
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- screw up - twist into a strained configuration; "screw up one's face"