botch

(bŏch)

tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es

1. To perform poorly or ruin through clumsiness or ineptitude: botch a tennis shot; botch a rebellion.

2. To repair or mend clumsily or ineptly.

1. A ruined or defective piece of work: "I have made a miserable botch of this description" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).

2. A hodgepodge.

[Middle English bocchen, to mend.]

botch′er n.

botch′y adj.

Synonyms: botch, blow¹, bungle, butcher, fumble, muff¹
These verbs mean to harm or spoil through ineptitude or clumsiness: botch a repair; blow an opportunity; bungle an interview; butchered the haircut; fumbled my chance to apologize; muffed the last play of the game.

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botch

(bɒtʃ)

1. to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude

2. to repair badly or clumsily

Also called: botch-up a badly done piece of work or repair (esp in the phrase make a botch of (something))

[C14: of unknown origin]

ˈbotcher n

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botch

(bɒtʃ)
v.t.

1. to spoil by poor work; bungle.

2. to do or say in a bungling manner.

3. to mend or patch in a clumsy manner.

4. a poor piece of work; mess; bungle.

5. a clumsily added part or patch.

[1350–1400; Middle English bocchen to patch up; of uncertain orig.]

botch′ed•ly, adv.

botch′er, n.

botch′er•y, n.

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 been botching
he/she/it will have been botching
we will have been botching
you will have been botching
they will have been botching

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been botching
you had been botching
he/she/it had been botching
we had been botching
you had been botching
they had been botching

Conditional
I would botch
you would botch
he/she/it would botch
we would botch
you would botch
they would botch

Past Conditional
I would have botched
you would have botched
he/she/it would have botched
we would have botched
you would have botched
they would have botched

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	botch - an embarrassing mistake blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, bloomer error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" bobble - the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" snafu - an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up spectacle - a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself bull - a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" fumble, muff - (sports) dropping the ball fluff - a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism, gaucherie - a socially awkward or tactless act howler - a glaring blunder clanger - a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger" misstep, trip-up, stumble, trip - an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
Verb	1.	botch - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, ball up, spoil, muff, screw up, fumble, blow go wrong, miscarry, fail - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

botch

verb

1. spoil, mar, bungle, fumble, screw up (informal), mess up, cock up (Brit. slang), balls up (taboo slang), fuck up (offensive taboo slang), mismanage, muff, make a nonsense of (informal), bodge (informal), make a pig's ear of (informal), flub (U.S. slang) It's a silly idea, and he has botched it.

noun

1. mess, failure, blunder, miscarriage, bungle, bungling, fumble, hash, cock-up (Brit. slang), balls-up (taboo slang), fuck-up (offensive taboo slang), pig's ear (informal), pig's breakfast (informal) I rather made a botch of that whole thing.

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botch

verb

To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess:

ball up, blunder, boggle, bungle, foul up, fumble, gum up, mess up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil.

Informal: bollix up, muck up.

Slang: blow, goof up, louse up, screw up, snafu.

Idiom: make a muck of.

noun

A ruinous state of disorder:

foul-up, mess, muddle, shambles.

Informal: hash.

Slang: screwup, snafu.

Translations

Machwerk

gâcher

abborracciare acciarpare raffazzonare rappezzare rattoppare

botch

[bɒtʃ]

A. N (= crude repair) → chapuza f
to make a botch of = B

B. VT (also botch up) → hacer una chapuza de
to botch it → estropearlo
a botched job → una chapuza

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botch

[ˈbɒtʃ] vt [job] → saboter, bâcler

botch up

(= mess up) → saboter

(= repair inexpertly) → rafistoler

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botch

(inf)

vt (also botch up) → verpfuschen, vermurksen (inf); plans etc → vermasseln (inf); a botched job → ein Pfusch m (inf)

n → Murks m (inf), → Pfusch m (inf); to make a botch of something → etw verpfuschen/vermasseln (inf)

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botch

[bɒtʃ]

1. n (of job) → pasticcio, macello

2. vt (job) → raffazzonare; (attempt) → fallire

botch up vt (job) → raffazzonare

botch

vt (a surgery, etc.) hacer mal (una cirugía, etc.)

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References in classic literature

In turn he took his place in the reading class and made a botch of it; then in the geography class and turned lakes into mountains, mountains into rivers, and rivers into continents, till chaos was come again; then in the spelling class, and got "turned down," by a succession of mere baby words, till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation for months.

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God could not make a botch. The matron had been wrong, her mother had been wrong.

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I says to myself I've botched my chances by that; I surely have, if he meets up with Hal Clayton.

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So, that feather-headed boy had botched things again!

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Having the natural feelings of a tradesman at finding that a job he should have been called in for had been unskilfully botched by his customers among themselves, he was disposed to say no.

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He assumes that Christianity, as a product of the resentment of the botched and the weak, has put in ban all that is beautiful, strong, proud, and powerful, in fact all the qualities resulting from strength, and that, in consequence, all forces which tend to promote or elevate life have been seriously undermined.

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But first the lawless Tyrant, who denies To know thir God, or message to regard, Must be compelld by Signes and Judgements dire; To blood unshed the Rivers must be turnd, Frogs, Lice and Flies must all his Palace fill With loath'd intrusion, and fill all the land; His Cattel must of Rot and Murren die, Botches and blaines must all his flesh imboss, And all his people; Thunder mixt with Haile, Haile mixt with fire must rend th' EGYPTIAN Skie And wheel on th' Earth, devouring where it rouls; What it devours not, Herb, or Fruit, or Graine, A darksom Cloud of Locusts swarming down Must eat, and on the ground leave nothing green: Darkness must overshadow all his bounds, Palpable darkness, and blot out three dayes; Last with one midnight stroke all the first-born Of EGYPT must lie dead.

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In both these latter cases--meaning with any approach where you manually enter frequencies and courses--a double-check of the numbers on the plate against the ones in the panel can save what would be a nasty botch. The tough part here is getting past the common human failing of seeing what you expect to see rather than what's actually there.

Save a botched approach: some days you're an ace and other days even the basics elude you. Know what you can do and what you shouldn't do to make a landing from an approach that goes wrong

Since the unknown protein appeared to prevent Notch from acting on cells, the researchers named it Botch for "blocks Notch."

Newly discovered protein controls brain stem cell differentiation

Roy is an entirely different sound from the previous heavy and hardcore bands you've all played in (Botch, Harkonen, These Arms Are Snakes).

Roy

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