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screwtapes

screwtapes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of screwtape.

screwtapes is the plural of screwtape.

Meaning of screwtape

Verb

screwtape (third-person singular simple present screwtapes, present participle screwtaping, simple past and past participle screwtaped)

  1. To mess things up, to corrupt, to be devilish.
    • His collection of songlines and timelines snarled at him like a screwtaped confession.2007, Palace Pier Blues, →ISBN, page 33

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Questions about screwtapes

What is screwtapes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Screwtapes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of screwtape.

Words near screwtapes in the dictionary

  1. screwstems
  2. screwstone
  3. screwstones
  4. screwtape
  5. screwtaped
  6. screwtapes
  7. screwtaping
  8. screwthread
  9. screwthreads
  10. screwtop
  11. screwtops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screwtapes (page history and authors); screwtape (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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