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botch

/ botch /
verb/noun

Definitions & Examples

verb Sense 1
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"
Type of:
fail go wrong miscarry
Derived:
blunder blooper bloomer bungle foul-up
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
noun Sense 2
an embarrassing mistake
Type of:
mistake error fault
Kinds of:
snafu spectacle bull fumble muff
Derived:
bumble fumble botch up muff blow
Semantic Complexity
26%
Sense Count
2
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
21
Times Searched
3
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fail go wrong miscarry mistake error fault snafu spectacle bull fumble muff