Botch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To ruin through clumsiness.
  • v. To make or perform clumsily; bungle.
  • v. To repair or mend clumsily.
  • n. A ruined or defective piece of work: "I have made a miserable botch of this description” ( Nathaniel Hawthorne).
  • n. A hodgepodge.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A tumour or other malignant swelling.
  • n. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
  • v. To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something; to ruin; to bungle; to spoil; to destroy.
  • v. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
  • n. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
  • n. A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
  • n. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
  • n. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
  • n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  • n. 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.
  • v. To mark with, or as with, botches.
  • v. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
  • v. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. A bungled or ill-finished part; a flaw; a blemish.
  • n. A patch, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  • n. That which is botched; ill-finished or bungled work generally.
  • n. A bungling, unskilful workman or operator of any kind; a botcher.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an embarrassing mistake
  • v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
  • Verb Form
    botched    botches    botching   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    miscarry    fail    go wrong   
    Cross Reference
    mismanage    repair    mess up    screw up    foul up   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    boil    bungle    repair    mend    blunder    muddle    clamper    cobble    tinker    butcher   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Boche    Scotch    crotch    gotch    lauch    notch    poche    scotch    swatch    troche   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts