1. In a difficult or hopeless situation
   "After losing his job and car in the same week, he felt completely screwed";
   - shafted [informal]
    
2. Very drunk
   "After the party, he was completely screwed and could barely walk";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]

1. Fasten, tighten, or adjust by twisting
   "He screwed the lid onto the jar"
    
2. Cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion
   "drive in screws or bolts";
   - drive in
    
3. Tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions
   "Screw the bottle cap on"
    
4. [informal] Defeat someone through trickery or deceit
   "The con artist screwed the unsuspecting victim out of their savings";
   - cheat, chouse [archaic], shaft [informal], chicane, jockey
    
5. [vulgar, informal] Have sexual intercourse
   "they screwed in the back of the car";
   - sleep together, love, make love, sleep with, have sex, know [archaic], do it [informal], be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed [informal], get it on [informal]

See also: drunk, force, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]

Type of: beat, beat out, copulate, couple, crush, fasten, go around, go round, mate, pair, revolve, rotate, shell [US], tighten, trounce, vanquish

Antonym: unscrew

Encyclopedia: Screwed