Definitions For Screwed

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of screw : He screwed the boards together tightly. : I got screwed at the swap meet yesterday.

Adjective

(slang) fucked, beset with unfortunate circumstances that seem difficult or impossible to overcome; in imminent danger. : They found out about our betrayal, so now we're screwed. (slang, British) intoxicated.

Usage notes

Often employed as a bowdlerization, or substitution, for fucked.

Synonyms

beset, vulgar fucked, dicked, shagged {{qualifier, British}}; see also thesaurus:in trouble intoxicated See thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

screwed, blued and tattooed / screwed, glued and tattooed screwedness

Translations

Catalan: fotut, fastiguejat, putejat {{qualifier, slang informal}} Chinese: : Mandarin: 完蛋, tr=wándàn, sc=Hani Finnish: pulassa, kusessa, in der Scheiße stecken French: foutu Japanese: 一巻の終わり (いっかんのおわり, ikkan no owari, sc=Jpan) Portuguese: fodido Russian: {{q, used predicatively, e.g. ему́ кранты́! - he is screwed!}} кранты́, m-p, хана́, f, каю́к, m, кирды́к, m, капу́т, m, кры́шка, f, пизде́ц, m {{qualifier, vulgar}} Spanish: jodido, cagado, en el horno {{qualifier, slang informal}} Finnish: kännissä Russian: бухо́й Spanish: del orto {{qualifier, vulgar slang}} {{checktrans-top}}

See also

screwed up

Usage notes

Because the sexual act as a metaphor for domination is a frequent association for the term 'screwed', it is potentially offensive in polite circles.

Etymology

{{rfe, en, The reference given does not support most of the claims.}} from screw + ed. The modern sense of , screwed originates in the mid-1600s with a sense of to screw as a means of "exerting pressure or coercion", probably in reference to instruments of torture (e.g. thumbscrews)."" in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 It quickly gained a wider general sense of "in a bind; in unfortunate inescapable circumstances". When the verb , screw gained a sexual connotation in the early 1700s,"" in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 it joined the long-lasting association of sexual imagery as a metaphor for domination, leading to , screwed gaining synonyms like fucked and shagged. On a more general note, this is a prime example of the frequent tendency for verb participles to evolve into adjectives. The sense meaning "intoxicated" is from the early 1800s, and is associated with the term screwy, and the idiom to have a screw loose.

Anagrams

decrews