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screw

verb as in twist in

Strongest match

verb as in twist, contort

verb as in treat badly, take advantage

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Example Sentences

“But I think it needs to twist the screws a lot more than this if it wants to hold a candle to last year's show.”

From BBC

The Rams tightened the screws after that and surrendered only a field goal.

I needed to go out on the field and screw it up, and then watch myself do it wrong on film.

"As a new parent myself," she continued, "I felt scared at the idea that I might somehow screw up, and my child would reject me."

From Salon

If a fractured bone is to blame, surgeons can shore it up by fusing it to another vertebrae using screws and rods.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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