botch

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1. botch - Noun

2. botch - Verb

Meaning

A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.

A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.

Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.

To mark with, or as with, botches.

To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.

To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.

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Everyone here makes a botch of his life. That's the local specialty, the genius loci. Anyone who doesn't botch up his life here simply has no talent. Imre Kertész

I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape. Yann Martel

I botched the dinner and we had to eat out Source: Internet

the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement Source: Internet

America and its allies will command Northeast Asian waters against North Korea’s feeble navy and air force unless they botch things dreadfully. Source: Internet

The station, Fox 5, obtained some of those messages and printed a few, such as: "You better not botch this recount. Source: Internet

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