botch up

Speech parts

1. botch up - Noun

2. botch up - Verb

Meaning

make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

botch-up

Synonyms

bumble muff bungle blow fumble spoil fluff bollocks bobble botch screw up bodge mishandle ball up mess up
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Antonyms

correct adjust articulate make good do well bear fruit
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Hypernyms

fail miscarry go wrong

Examples

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

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

Close letter words and terms

BOTC botch botch job botched botched abortion botched situation