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botch::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| Type of | fail, go wrong, miscarry |
| Derivation | botcher |
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
| Type of | mistake, fault, error |
| Has types | faux pas, fluff, fumble, gaffe, gaucherie, howler, misstep, muff, slip, snafu, solecism, spectacle, stumble, trip, trip-up, bobble, bull, clanger |
| Derivation | botchy |
Examples of botch
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Let's say you love Geography and get good marks all year but you botch the exam.
From the nzherald.co.nz
In the first place, if you botch the job, you are going to be sued mercilessly.
From the post-gazette.com
Then in the second scene, the two partners go on a stakeout, and they botch it.
From the timesunion.com
Whether you're a son or a father, this is one celebration you don't want to botch.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Too bad for all of us, the makers and the watchers alike, that it's a grimy botch.
From the entertainment.time.com
Still, the Air Force has already proven its ability to royally botch this contract.
From the thenewstribune.com
It's like anything in life you can have it done properly or you can botch it.
From the thisishampshire.net
The political finesse they showed then is in stark contrast to this botch up.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The Deer Hunter was a botch as a story, but it had redeeming social delirium.
From the time.com
- Blunder: an embarrassing mistake
- 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"
- Botch was a four-piece mathcore band from Tacoma, Washington, that formed in 1993 and disbanded in 2002.
- To botch in professional wrestling means to attempt a scripted move that does not come out as it was originally planned due to a mistake, miscalculation, or a slip-up. ...
- An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle; A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing; A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge; To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent ...
- [Deut.28: 27, 35] Swelling of the skin; large ulcerous affection.
- To take something going well and have it turn wrong.
- The name given in Deu 28:27, Deu 28:35 to one of the Egyptian plagues (Exo 9:9). The word so translated is usually rendered "boil" (q.v.).
- A mistake or spot that does not go as planned. Ex. Jeff Hardy botched a lot of moves during his first stint in WWE.
