screw

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of SCREW

to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition <screwed up his face at the taste of the medicine>

Synonyms deform, distort, misshape, screw, squinch, torture, warp

Related Words deface, disfigure; wrench, wrest, wring; coil, curl, loop, spiral, twine, wind, wreathe

Near Antonyms straighten, unbend, uncurl

to rob by the use of trickery or threats <managed to screw his siblings out of their share of the inheritance>

Synonyms beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose [slang], hustle, mulct, nobble [British slang], pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize

Related Words extort, wrench, wrest, wring; clip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soak; exploit, milk; deceive, dupe, fool, gull, trick; rope (in); betray, bitch, double-cross; bamboozle, fast-talk

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