Thesaurus: botch

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1. n. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
2. n. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. n. 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.
4. n. To mark with, or as with, botches.
5. n. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
6. n. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
7. n. an embarrassing mistake
8. v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
9. n:8/v:92 v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin