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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.
n.
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.
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)vb
1. to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude
2. to repair badly or clumsily
n
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.
n. 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.
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botch
Past participle: botched
Gerund: botching
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| Noun | 1. |  botch - an embarrassing mistake 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" fluff - a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines) howler - a glaring blunder clanger - a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger" |
| 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" |
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botch
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botch
[bɒtʃ]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
botch
[ˈbɒtʃ] vt [job] → saboter, bâclerbotch up
vt (= 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
vt (a surgery, etc.) hacer mal (una cirugía, etc.)English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.