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screwtaping

screwtaping is the present participle and gerund 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 screwtaping

What is screwtaping the present participle and gerund of?
Screwtaping is the present participle and gerund of screwtape.

Words near screwtaping in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screwtaping (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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