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Screwed is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in screwed (cdeersw).

Definitions for screwed

noun

1. a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
2. a threaded cylindrical pin or rod with a head at one end, engaging a threaded hole and used either as a fastener or as a simple machine for applying power, as in a clamp, jack, etc. Compare bolt1 (def 3).
3. British. a tapped or threaded hole.
4. something having a spiral form.
5. screw propeller.
6. Usually, screws. physical or mental coercion:
7. a single turn of a screw.
8. a twist, turn, or twisting movement.
9. Chiefly British. a little salt, sugar, tobacco, etc., carried in a twist of paper. Slang. a mean, old, or worn-out horse; a horse from which one can obtain no further service. Slang. a friend or employer from whom one can obtain no more money. Slang. a miser.
10. British Informal. salary; wages.
11. Slang. a prison guard.
12. Slang: Vulgar. an act of coitus. a person viewed as a sexual partner.

Idioms

1. have a screw loose, Slang. to be eccentric or neurotic; have crazy ideas:
2. have one’s head screwed on right/straight. head (def 67).
3. put the screws on, to compel by exerting pressure on; use coercion on; force:

adjective

1. fastened with screws.
2. having grooves like a screw; threaded.
3. twisted; awry.
4. Slang. bilked; cheated.
5. Chiefly British Slang. drunk; intoxicated.

Verb phrases

1. screw around, Slang. to waste time in foolish or frivolous activity: Vulgar. to engage in promiscuous sex.
2. screw off, Slang. to do nothing; loaf. to leave; go away.
3. screw up, Slang. to ruin through bungling or stupidity: to make a botch of something; blunder: to make confused, anxious, or neurotic:

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten, tighten, force, press, stretch tight, etc., by or as if by means of a screw or device operated by a screw or helical threads.
2. to operate or adjust by a screw, as a press.
3. to attach with a screw or screws:
4. to insert, fasten, undo, or work (a screw, bolt, nut, bottle top with a helical thread, etc.) by turning.
5. to contort as by twisting; distort (often followed by up):
6. to cause to become sufficiently strong or intense (usually followed by up):
7. to coerce or threaten.
8. to extract or extort.
9. to force (a seller) to lower a price (often followed by down).
10. Slang. to cheat or take advantage of (someone).
11. Slang: Vulgar. to have coitus with.

verb (used without object)

1. to turn as or like a screw.
2. to be adapted for being connected, taken apart, opened, or closed by means of a screw or screws or parts with helical threads (usually followed by on, together, or off):
3. to turn or move with a twisting or rotating motion.
4. to practice extortion.
5. Slang: Vulgar. to have coitus.

Origin of screwed

First recorded in 1640-50; screw + -ed²

Examples for screwed

The boiler leaked at nearly every hole where a tap had been screwed into it.

So she screwed up her courage and returned to the side porch to get a lantern.

He has to get this right, or every time he makes a budget forecast or talks about tax percentages, he is going to be screwed.

screwed the top on tight, which would make the connection, and then forgot the time.

Mr Flintwinch screwed this out of himself, unwillingly and rustily.

I had been thinking and thinking, and at last I screwed up my courage to answer his letter.

The Democrats are screwed with these people, in these states.

But make no mistake, the Heat are kind of screwed right now.

And every time I had tried suicide in the previous year I had screwed it up.

Of course, the Republicans are screwed in a lot of places, too.