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21botch — [[t]bɒ̱tʃ[/t]] botches, botching, botched 1) VERB If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily. [INFORMAL] [V n] It is a silly idea and he has botched it. [V ed] ...a botched job. Syn: mess up PHRASAL VERB …
22botch — 1 also botch up verb (T) informal to do something badly, because you have been careless or because you do not have the skill to do it properly: The builders really botched up our patio. botcher noun (C) 2 also botch up noun (C) informal… …
23botch up — verb 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 • Syn: ↑botch, ↑bodge, ↑bumble, ↑fumble, ↑muff, ↑blow, ↑ …
24botch — botch1 [bɔtʃ US ba:tʃ] v also botch up [T] informal to do something badly, because you have been careless or because you do not have the skill to do it properly ▪ The builders really botched up our patio. ▪ a botched investigation botch 2 botch2… …
25botch up — / make a botch of If you spoil something, or make a mess of it, by doing a job badly or incorrectly, you make a botch of it or you botch it up. Danny tried to assemble the new desk, but he made a botch of it …
26botch — [[t]bɒtʃ[/t]] 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 • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME bocchen to patch… …
27botch — /bɒtʃ / (say boch) verb (t) Also, botch up. 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. –noun Also, botch up. 4. a clumsy or poor piece of work; a bungle: his carpentry was a… …
28Botch — There are two expressions here to botch something up or to do a botch job. They both mean that the work done was not of a high standard or was a clumsy patch. My Dad used to always tell me that workmen had botched it up and that he should have… …
29botch — botch1 botchedly /boch id lee/, adv. botcher, n. botchery, n. /boch/, v.t. 1. to spoil by poor work; bungle (often fol. by up): He botched up the job thoroughly. 2. to do or say in a bungling manner. 3. to mend or patch in a clumsy manner. n …
30Botch — A complete and total failure, usually leading to undesired results. The epitome of screwups. Don t botch the moonshine like you did last time remember? When you poisoned half the town? …
