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.
Intoxicated.
"[…] Did you know that my husband came home intoxicated?" Mrs. Brown laughed. "Oh, not so bad as that, surely! Only a little 'screwed.' George was 'quisby,' too. But then its Christmas, you know."
simple past and past participle of screw
He screwed the boards together tightly.
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...
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