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[ verb ] make more intense
Examples "Emotions were screwed up" Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)All these emotions were screwed_up to new heights when , after acceptance and the first rehearsals , there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music_lovers that Duclos had_to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King 's amusements , and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Examples "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out" "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" |
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[ verb ] screw or turn higher
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