Textual thesaurus for "screw up"

(verb) heat up, hot up

make more intense

Emotions were screwed up

(verb) flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, ball up, spoil, mishandle, muck up, muff, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle

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