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screw over

screw over verb: to cheat someone, or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.

Verb

screw over (third-person singular simple present screws over, present participle screwing over, simple past and past participle screwed over)

  1. (mildly, slang, transitive, vulgar) To cheat someone, or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
    • I would have won the game but you screwed me over when I landed on Mayfair.
    • If you didn't betray your most reliable ally just so you could win in a game of soccer, you wouldn't have screwed yourself over by getting reprimanded and disqualified in front of everyone.

Synonyms of screw over

Forms of screw over

third-person singular presentscrews over
present participlescrewing over
past participlescrewed over
pastscrewed over

Questions about screw over

What does screw over mean?
Screw over means to cheat someone, or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
What part of speech is screw over?
Screw over is a verb.
What is the past tense of screw over?
The past tense of screw over is screwed over.

Words near screw over in the dictionary

  1. screw machine
  2. screw machines
  3. screw nail
  4. screw nails
  5. screw off
  6. screw over
  7. screw palm
  8. screw palms
  9. screw peg
  10. screw pegs
  11. screw picket

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