Dic: screw someone or something up

• Try again and don't screw it up this time.
• You really screwed up my brother by not being on time.
• Please don't screw me up again!
• This is the chef's screw-up, not mine.
• One more screw-up like that and you're fired.

Inf. to mess up someone or something.

Inf. to confuse someone mentally.

... McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

Cf: screw up

1. PHRASAL VERB | If you screw up your eyes or your face, you tighten your eye or face muscles, for example because you are in pain or because the light is too bright.

• She had screwed up her eyes, as if she found the sunshine too bright.
• Close your eyes and screw them up tight.
• His face screwed up in agony.

2. PHRASAL VERB | If you screw up a piece of paper, you squeeze it tightly so that it becomes very creased and no longer flat, usually when you are throwing it away.[BRIT]

• He would start writing to his family and would screw the letter up in frustration.
• He screwed up his first three efforts after only a line or two.

..... Cobuild