Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To tighten or secure with screws. 2 (context transitive English) To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels. 3 (context transitive English) To twist into a contorted state 4 (context transitive dated English) To squint. 5 (context transitive colloquial English) To make a mess of; to ruin. 6 (context intransitive colloquial English) To blunder; to make a mistake.
WordNet
v. make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up" [syn: heat up, hot 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" [syn: botch, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]
screw or turn higher
twist into a strained configuration; "screw up one's face"
Wikipedia
Screw Up is the 1995 debut full-length album by Japanese group Super Junky Monkey. It showcased their fusion of rap, hardcore, punk, and funk music. It was released in Japan and the United States.
Usage examples of "screw up".
It requires about ten minutes for me to screw up my courage to the sticking point and for Ernest to get his cunt's dress up so that she's showing her bare ass to the world.
I do not want you to screw up in front of the lieutenant, I do not want you to mouth off to the MPs, I do not want you to get us in deeper than we are.
You can screw up big time out there, eat vacuum, 0/D on radiation, blow yourself up, get flattened by an ore crusher, get stranded and starve to death.