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screw

verb as in twist in

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verb as in twist, contort

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verb as in treat badly, take advantage

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“Is there any way we can screw him?” asked President Richard M. Nixon.

Troops "keep putting it back together with some sticky tape and screws, and back off to the frontline it goes", Mr Narozhny says.

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Until Putin stops his "barbaric assault", that allies would "keep tightening the screws on his war machine with even more sanctions", he added.

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Nick Frost pilfered two Lions line-outs as they turned the screw.

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If I screw this up, if I let this go, will anything ever amount to what we had again?

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