What is the meaning of screw up?

Make more intense.
- usage: "Emotions were screwed up"
- synonyms: heat up, hot up
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
- usage: "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- synonyms: botch, bodge, 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.
- usage: "screw up one's face"

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