When bad experiences or people screw you up, they… Fumbled, stumbled, slipped up, tripped, dropped the ball, fouled up, goofed (up), blundered Improved, enhanced, helped, refined, remedied, reformed, rectified, ameliorated If you say that someone is screwed up, you mean that they are very confused or worried, or that they have psychological problems He was really screwed up with his emotional problems. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Verb to make a big mistake or blunder To mishandle or ruin something I'm sorry, i really screwed up Wow, it looks like they really screwed up this time Verb to ruin, damage, or mishandle something, especially inadvertently. See ‘meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
You shouldn’t steal from kids (idiomatic, colloquial) broken, damaged, inoperative or having only partial functioning, especially by inept handling That's a really screwed up car. Not acting or functioning the way a person or thing should To twist out of shape or distort See examples of screw up used in a sentence.
Definitions of screw up verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin “the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement” synonyms Ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, butcher, flub, fluff, foul up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, spoil see more verb
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