Screw Ruin Wrong Meaning Synonym Muck Informal Mess

Meaning: If you screw something up, you ruin it or you do it the wrong way.

• screw up Louise really screwed up this time. We paid a lot for a fancy brochure about our seminar - and she put the wrong dates on it!
  
  
• screw sth up If she screws anything else up, she'll lose her job.
  
  

Nouns often used as objects with screw up: job, exam, test, interview, presentation, demonstration