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screwed up

/skroo/US // skru //UK // (skruː) //

搞砸了,搞砸了的,错了,糟糕的是

Related Words

tighten拧紧,收紧,缩紧,紧缩scrunch抓紧时间,挠头,挠痒痒,抓紧pucker折皱,褶皱,撅嘴,撅起crumple褶皱,皱缩,皱褶,皱巴巴的cheat诈骗,骗人,欺骗,骗人的pinch钳制,掐死,掐断,钳子squeeze挤压,挤兑,挤压式,挤出turn变成,转弯,变成了,转变twine麻绳,麻线,缠绕,绳索work工作,工,作业,劳动spiral螺旋式,螺旋式的,螺旋形,螺旋状wind缠绕,风,缠绕的,缠绕着rumple朗普,浪花,朗波,朗波尔distort歪曲,歪曲事实,扭曲,曲解contract合同,签约,契约,契约书crinkle皱纹,褶皱,皱缩,皱巴巴的crimp卷曲,压接,卷边,卷绕wrinkle褶皱,皱纹,防皱,折皱extort敲诈勒索,勒索,讹诈,敲诈ream绞刑,绞肉,绞肉机,绞车

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
    • : a threaded cylindrical pin or rod with a head at one end, engaging a threaded hole and used either as a fastener or as a simple machine for applying power, as in a clamp, jack, etc.Compare bolt.
    • : British. a tapped or threaded hole.
    • : something having a spiral form.
    • : screw propeller.
    • : Usually screws. physical or mental coercion: The terrified debtor soon felt the gangster's screws.
    • : a single turn of a screw.
    • : a twist, turn, or twisting movement.
    • : Chiefly British. a little salt, sugar, tobacco, etc., carried in a twist of paper.Slang.a mean, old, or worn-out horse; a horse from which one can obtain no further service.Slang.a friend or employer from whom one can obtain no more money.Slang.a miser.
    • : British Informal. salary; wages: It's not my dream job, but the screw's decent enough.
    • : Slang. a prison guard.
    • : Slang: Vulgar. an act of sexual intercourse. a person viewed as a sexual partner.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to fasten, tighten, force, press, stretch tight, etc., by or as if by means of a screw or device operated by a screw or helical threads.
    • : to operate or adjust by a screw, as a press.
    • : to attach with a screw or screws: to screw a bracket to a wall.
    • : to insert, fasten, undo, or work by turning.
    • : to contort as by twisting; distort: Dad screwed his face into a grimace of disgust.
    • : to cause to become sufficiently strong or intense: I screwed up my courage to ask for a raise.
    • : to coerce or threaten.
    • : to extract or extort.
    • : to force to lower a price.
    • : Slang. to cheat or take advantage of.
    • : Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to turn as or like a screw.
    • : to be adapted for being connected, taken apart, opened, or closed by means of a screw or screws or parts with helical threads: This top screws on easily.
    • : to turn or move with a twisting or rotating motion.
    • : to practice extortion.
    • : Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse.
  1. 1
    • : screw around, Slang. to waste time in foolish or frivolous activity: If you'd stop screwing around we could get this job done.Vulgar.to engage in promiscuous sex.
    • : screw off, Slang. to do nothing; loaf.to leave; go away.
    • : screw up, Slang. to ruin through bungling or stupidity: Somehow the engineers screwed up the entire construction project.to make a botch of something; blunder: Sorry, I guess I screwed up.to make confused, anxious, or neurotic: Losing your job can really screw you up.

Phrases

  • screw around
  • screw loose
  • screw someone out of
  • screw up
  • screw up one's courage
  • screw you
  • have a screw loose
  • pluck (screw) up one's courage
  • tighten the screws
  • turn up the heat (put the screws on)

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmake a mess of
Synonyms
botch敷衍了事,敷衍塞责,敷衍,敷衍了事的人bungle一团糟,胡闹,搞乱了,搞乱confuse淆乱,混淆,迷惑,混乱flub忽悠,忽悠人,失误,失败muddle淆乱,搞乱,淆杂,淆乱的spoil破坏,糟蹋,弄坏,弄坏了blow打击,吹,打吹,吹吹bobble摇头丸,摇头晃脑,摇摆不定,摇头晃脑的bollix螺栓,螺栓连接,螺栓连接的foul up犯规,犯规了,弄虚作假goof笨蛋,傻瓜,傻子,愚蠢goof up搞砸了,打混,搞砸,糊弄人louse虱子,虱目鱼,螨虫,虱子的问题make hash of凑合着说,凑齐了,凑齐,凑合一下mess混乱,混乱的局面,杂乱无章,乱七八糟的东西mess up弄乱了,弄乱,搞乱,搞乱了mishandle处理不当,错误处理,误操作,误伤mismanage管理不善,搞砸了,搞乱,弄错了muck up弄脏了,弄脏,捣乱,捣乱的muff马夫,闷棍,袖口,拷问queer蹊跷,蹊跷的,奇特的,诡异的snafu故障,失败,失败者,漏洞

Examples

  • The scariest part about this process isn’t the sharp tools or the tiny screws or the moths flying around your late-night construction scene—it’s making sure it all actually works.

  • A wall-mount screw kit is included for an easy and simple wall hanging construction.

  • Simply assemble the legs with a few screws and get working in minutes.

  • Crucially, the implied “turn of the screw” in James’s novel pivots around the question of whether the ghosts are real or not.

  • There’s a removable base that screws on and off with a single flat-blade screw.

  • You want less concentration in banking—at least the type that will screw the little guy and imperil the economy?

  • The Internet cool kids are rallying against Taylor Swift after her bold screw-you to Spotify.

  • Then they sent me to psychologists and it was like “screw his head on straight.”

  • In all honesty she may be handling it better, in terms of not letting it affect her as a person or screw up her life.

  • The company bargained him down to $65 a screw—less than half of what they usually cost.

  • The powdered stone was removed from the hole by giving a screw form to the stem of the bit.

  • "I did n't fly off the handle," said the screw, twirling huskily at the end of the screw-shaft.

  • At the usual hour that night the employés of Stickle and Screw left work and took their several ways home ward.

  • The propeller to be worked by this novel engine was of course his long-idle screw.

  • An article in 'The Times' gives in strong contrast the relative value of screw and paddle-wheels as propellers.

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