Screw up

Definition

screw /skru:/ n ၁။ [C] ဝက္အူ။ a wood screw (ie for use in wood). Compare NAIL See also CORKSCREW ၂။ [C] ဝက္အူက်ပ္ျခင္း။ The nut isn't tight enough yet: give it another screw. ၃။ [C] (သေဘၤာ၊ ေမာ္ေတာ္) ပန္ကာ၊ ငါးမန္း ေတာင္။ a twin-screw cruiser. ၄။ [C] ( Brit sl ) ေထာင္အမႈထမ္း။ ၅။ [sing] (⚠ sl ) (က) ကာမစပ္ယွက္ျခင္း။ have a screw with sb ❍ All he wants is a screw. (ခ) ကာမစပ္ယွက္ေဖာ္။ be a good screw. v ဝက္အူစုပ္သည္။ ဝက္အူက်ပ္သည္။ screw a bracket to the wall ❍ screw a lock on the door ❍ screw all the parts together. ၂။ (က) လွည့္(ထည့္၊ ၾကည့္၊ သြင္း) သည္။ screw the lid on (the jar) ❍ screw a bulb in ❍ screw one's head round (ie in order to look over one's shoulder) ❍ screw the nut tight. (ခ) လွည့္သြင္းရသည္။ This type of bulb screws into the socket. ❍ Does this lid screw on, or do you just press it down? ၃။ ~ sb (for sth) ( sl ) (ဗန္း) ႐ိုက္စားသည္။ လီွးသည္။ We've been screwed. ❍ How much did they screw you for (ie How much did you have to pay)? ၄။ (⚠ sl ) (က) သံဝါသျပဳသည္။ a couple screwing in the back of a car. (ခ) လြန္က်ဴးသည္။ He accused me of screwing his wife. ❏ have a screw loose [ IDM ] သြပ္ေခ်ာင္ေခ်ာင္ျဖစ္ေန သည္။ ❏ put the screws on (sb) [ IDM ] ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္သည္။ The landlord's putting the screws on to get her to leave. ❏ screwball n ( US infml ) အ႐ူး။ အေပါ။ a screwball comedy. ❏ screwed-up adj (က) ကတိမ္းကယိမ္းျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ ကေပါက္ခ်ိကေပါက္ခ်ာျဖစ္ေသာ။ screwed-up kids ❍ I'm still screwed-up about the accident. (ခ) လံုးေထြးထားေသာ။ a screwed-up tissue/paper bag. (ဂ) ႐ံႈ႕တြမဲ့ရြဲ႕ေသာ(မ်က္ႏွာ)။ ေမွးထားေသာ(မ်က္စိ)။ ❏ screw sth from / out of sb [ PHRV ] ညႇစ္သည္။ They screwed the money out of her by threats. ❏ screw him , you , that , etc [ IDM ] (⚠ sl ) (စိတ္တို၍ ဆဲေရးသည့္စကား)။ ❏ screw sb over [ PHRV ] ( US ) တစ္ပတ္႐ိုက္သည္။ ❏ screw-topped (also screw-top ) adj လွည့္ပိတ္ရသည့္ အဖံုးပါေသာ(ပုလင္း၊ ဘူး စသည္)။ ❏ screw up [ PHRV ] ( sl esp US ) တလြဲတေခ်ာ္လုပ္မိသည္။ I was trying to help, but I screwed up again. ❏ screw sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဝက္အူစုပ္သည္။ screw up a crate. ၂။ လွည့္၍ပိတ္သည္။ I screwed up the jar and put it back in the cupboard. Compare UNSCREW ၃။ လံုးေထြးလိုက္သည္။ I screwed up the letter and threw it on the fire. ၄။ (မ်က္ႏွာ)႐ံႈ႕သည္။ (မ်က္စိ)ေမွးၾကည့္သည္။ The bitter drink made her screw up her face. ၅။ ( sl ) တလြဲတေခ်ာ္လုပ္သည္။ ငါးပါးေမွာက္သည္။ Don't ask them to organize the trip, they'll only screw everything up. ❏ screw up one's courage [ IDM ] ရဲစိတ္ေမြးသည္။ ရဲေဆးတင္သည္။ I finally screwed up my courage and went to the dentist. ❏ screwy adj ( infml ) ေပါေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္။ She's really screwy! ❍ What a screwy idea!

Examples

1. Next screw the back and sides of the box together.
2. [screw something into/onto/to something] : The rails need to be firmly screwed to the wall.
3. Make sure you screw the lid on firmly to keep the contents fresh.
4. [screw someone out of something] : We were just screwed out of £20!
5. Peter kept his eyes screwed tightly shut.
6. [screw something into something] : She was nervously screwing her tissue into a ball.