screw up vs heighten

screw up and heighten both are verbs.

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

As verbs, heighten is a hypernym of screw up; that is, heighten is a word with a broader meaning than screw up:

Other hypernyms of screw up include compound, deepen, intensify.

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