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  • past tense form of screw.
  • past participle of screw.
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screwed

[skrood] / skrud /


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Veteran lifestyle guru Martha Stewart has admitted she "really screwed up" by dressing as a homeless person for Halloween.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Others are placed onto table frames fixed to the ocean floor, and yet others are mounted onto plugs, screwed into a three-hole "cookie" and planted onto the reef.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

“Even if we won close and kind of ugly,” Kiffin said, “the whole story would have been, ‘I screwed the team up.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

The klan was a handful of misfits who screwed up everything they tried to do.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026

He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes had been filled.

From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl


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