Verb

(en verb)

To connect or assemble pieces using a screw.

(transitive, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.

(slang) To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. Sometimes used in the form "screw over".

To apply pressure on; to put the screws on.

To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.

* Jonathan Swift

Our country landlords, by unmeasurable screwing and racking their tenants, have already reduced the miserable people to a worse condition than the peasants in France.

To contort.

* Dryden

He screwed his face into a hardened smile.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter V

I had been calling Nobs in the meantime and was about to set out in search of him, fearing, to tell the truth, to do so lest I find him mangled and dead among the trees of the acacia grove, when he suddenly emerged from among the boles, his ears flattened, his tail between his legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except for minor bruises; but he was the most chastened dog I have ever seen.

(soccer) To miskick (a ball) by hitting it with the wrong part of the foot.

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(billiard, snooker, pool) To screw back.

(US, slang, dated) To examine (a student) rigidly; to subject to a severe examination.

Verb

(en verb)

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

* Prior

Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

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To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.

To molest; to harm; to injure.

to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

* Evelyn

tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them