heighten vs screw up

heighten and screw up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
heighten	No	No	Yes	No
screw up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, screw up is a hyponym of heighten; that is, screw up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than heighten:

Other hyponyms of heighten include heat up, hot up, fan, enhance, heighten, raise, amplify, sharpen, heighten, sharpen.

heighten (verb)	screw up (verb)
increase the level of	twist into a strained configuration
become more extreme	make more intense
make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity	screw or turn higher
make more intense, stronger, or more marked	make a mess of, destroy or ruin
make (one's senses) more acute
increase the height of