screw up

VERB
  1. make more intense
    Emotions were screwed up
  2. twist into a strained configuration
    screw up one's face
  3. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
    the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
    I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
  4. screw or turn higher
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How To Use screw up In A Sentence

  • Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Tony Robbins 
  • Can you screw up this handle for me?
  • If you screw up too many times, they'll kick you off the team.
  • I can only think that somewhere, somehow, Ovid is applauding. p.s. I am sure wordpress is about to screw up the formatting of the quote. Girl Meets Boy « Tales from the Reading Room
  • (Moduli decaying to the gravitino, which is long-lived, and can screw up BBN etc …) 73. String Theory is Losing the Public Debate
  • The alarm clock to the point, not only the alarm will be sounded, but also fly above the wing screw up.
  • | Today's turnout is gonna screw up the data geeks » Election Day - Turnout (Blog for Democracy)
  • Beware your Little League baseball coach, kids, he may just screw up your life.
  • Groom a pretender (for lack of a better word), build a coalition, and wait for your CEO to screw up, which he will if he is a short-termer. Then pounce.
  • Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. Tony Robbins 
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