screwn
screwn is the past participle of screw.
Meaning of screw
Verb
screw (third-person singular simple present screws, present participle screwing, simple past screwed, past participle screwed or (rare, nonstandard) screwn)
- To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- Somebody told me [...] that she [...] acknowledged to him [...] that Nero [...] had screwed her (meaning had carnal intercourse with plaintiff) up stairs the night before.1890, Albert G. Porter, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana
- To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation.
- Synonyms:
- fuck, screw over
- To extort or practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions; to put the screws on.
- […] our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France, or the vassals in Germany and Poland […]1720, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture
- To contort.
- He screwed his face into a hardened smile.1690, John Dryden, Don Sebastian, act 2, scene 1
- To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.
- The visitors could have added an instant second, but Rooney screwed an ugly attempt high into Hennessey's arms after Berbatov cleverly found the unmarked England striker.2011 February 5, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC
Origin of screwn
From screw + -n.
Questions about screwn
- What is screwn the past participle of?
- Screwn is the past participle of screw.
Words near screwn in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: screwn (page history and authors); screw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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