Botched meaning

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• abjectly • at-risk • backbencher • balls (something) up • be on your beam ends idiom • blow (someone/something) up • bomb • egg • flog a dead horse idiom • flop • flub • flunk out • founder • fray around/at the edges idiom • mess • rot • running on empty idiom • sclerotic • screw • the rot sets in idiom • (that's) your hard luck idiom • aberration • Achilles heel • adrift • black mark • blemish • error • failing • false move • faux pas • flaw • malaprop • miscue • misfunction • misperception • misprint • that's/it's your funeral! idiom • typo • wardrobe malfunction • weakness (Definition of botch from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. botch Past participle: botched Gerund: botching Imperative botch botch Present I botch you botch he/she/it botches we botch you botch they botch Preterite I botched you botched he/she/it botched we botched you botched they botched Present Continuous I am botching you are botching he/she/it is botching we are botching you are botching they are botching Present Perfect I have botched you have botched he/she/it has botched we have botched you have botched they have botched Past Continuous I was botching you were botching he/she/it was botching we were botching you were botching they were botching Past Perfect I had botched you had botched he/she/it had botched we had botched you had botched they had botched Future I will botch you will botch he/she/it will botch we will botch you will botch they will botch Future Perfect I will have botched you will have botched he/she/it will have botched we will have botched you will have botched they will have botched Future Continuous I will be botching you will be botching he/she/it will be botching we will be botching you will be botching they will be botching Present Perfect Continuous I have been botching you have been botching he/she/it has been botching we have been botching you have been botching they have been botching Future Perfect Continuous I will have been botching you will have...

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. • transitive verb To perform poorly or ruin through clumsiness or ineptitude. • transitive verb To repair or mend clumsily or ineptly. • noun A ruined or defective piece of work. • noun A hodgepodge. from The Century Dictionary. • noun A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil. • To mark with botches. • To mend or patch in a clumsy manner, as a garment: often used figuratively. • To put together unsuitably or unskilfully; perform, express, etc., in a bungling manner; hence, to spoil by unskilful work; bungle. • To mend or patch things in an unskilful manner; be a bungler or botcher. • noun A bungled or ill-finished part; a flaw; a blemish. • noun A patch, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. • noun That which is botched; ill-finished or bungled work generally. • noun A bungling, unskilful workman or operator of any kind; a botcher. from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. • noun Obs. or Dial. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. • noun A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. • noun Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle. • transitive verb To mark with, or as with, botches. • transitive verb To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clums...