botch[verb]Synonyms:- spoil, blunder, bungle, cock up
(Brit. slang), make a pig's ear of
(informal), mar, mess up, screw up
(informal)[noun]Synonyms:- mess, blunder, bungle, cock-up
(Brit. slang), failure, hash, pig's ear
(informal)
Related Idioms: drop a clanger, play (
or wreak) havoc with, play hell with, pull a boner (
or rock)
Related Words: butcher,
mangle,
murder,
mutilate,
mar,
ruin,
spoil,
destroy,
wreck,
hash,
tinker,
misconduct,
mishandle,
mismanage,
confuse,
disorder [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
I. botch1 /bɒtʃ $ bɑːtʃ/ (
also botch up)
verb [transitive] informal to do something badly, because you have been careless or because you do not have the skill to do it properly:
The builders really botched up our patio. a botched investigation [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
II. botch2 (
also ˈbotch-up British English)
noun [countable] especially British English informal a piece of work, a job etc that has been badly or carelessly done:
I’ve just made an awful botch of my translation. The whole thing was a botch job. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲