Crossword clues for screwed
screwed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Screw \Screw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Screwed; p. pr. & vb. n. Screwing.]
To turn, as a screw; to apply a screw to; to press, fasten, or make firm, by means of a screw or screws; as, to screw a lock on a door; to screw a press.
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To force; to squeeze; to press, as by screws.
But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail.
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Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
Our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France.
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To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage.
He screwed his face into a hardened smile.
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To examine rigidly, as a student; to subject to a severe examination. [Cant, American Colleges] To screw out, to press out; to extort. To screw up,
to force; to bring by violent pressure.
--Howell.to damage by unskillful effort; to bungle; to botch; to mess up.
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[intrans] to fail by unskillful effort, usu. causing unpleasant consequences. To screw in, to force in by turning or twisting. Screw around
to act aimlessly or unproductively.
screw around with, to operate or make changes on (a machine or device) without expert knowledge; to fiddle with.
[Colloq.]commit adultery; to be sexually promiscuous.
Wiktionary
1 (context slang English) beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger. 2 (context slang British English) intoxicated. v
(en-past of: screw)
Wikipedia
Screwed may refer to:
- Fastened with a screw
- Slang for having pressure or stress exerted as if having a screw driven in
- Slang for fornication
- Slang for in serious trouble
Screwed is a 2000 American comedy film, written and directed by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. It stars Norm Macdonald, Dave Chappelle, Danny DeVito, Elaine Stritch, Daniel Benzali, Sarah Silverman, and Sherman Hemsley. The film was released by Universal Studios.
Usage examples of "screwed".
The Captain screwed his glass into his eye, and greeted Bernard in his usual fashion--that is, as if he had parted with him overnight.
Kelly stopped cold, realizing that the can screwed onto the barrel blanked out his sights.
What Prospero and Caliban, two characters from an ancient Shakespearean play, are doing waiting for us on this real Earth, and why the quantum basis for the entire solar system is being screwed up by these Brane Holes that keep popping up.
The typical head-piece of the 17th-century soldier in England and elsewhere is a burgonet skull-cap with a straight brim, neck-guard and often, in addition, a fixed vizor of three thin iron bars which are screwed into, and hang down from, the brim in front of the eyes.
If the explosions had been mistimed or badly aimed, they were screwed.
Wyman took a Palm Pilot out of the desk drawer, turned it on, screwed the monocle into his right eye, tapped the screen with the stylus, and peered.
I knew suddenly it was the most important thing I could do, to make sure that the Petroses of the universe stopped getting screwed.
The push rod was screwed into a miniature piston head which, in turn, actuated a trio of switches.
Then I screwed the cap back on, twisted the valve, repressurized with nitrogen.
Butler was just an ordinary schmo whose ordinary life had been extraordinarily screwed by bad advice from a pastry.
Lady Seriema stepped out of the Basilica, her heavy features distorted by a scowl, and her mouth screwed up tight with displeasure and distaste.
This whole slaughtering fifth kigh thing, you being here in my body, has screwed up everything he thought he could be sure about in his entire life.
They made off, the girls looking back now and then and staring at Spinney, their eyes screwed up, some with spite, others with puzzlement.
Lysander Standish, all silken, all scented, all intolerance , striking up his pose of outrage in the doorway, a whining poodle clenched ruthlessly to his lime-green waistcoat and his quizzing glass all but screwed into one eye.
She had lovely gray eyes and only the barest indication above her brows where the stereotaxic device had been screwed to her skull.