n. | 1. | A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. |
2. | A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. | |
3. | 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. | |
v. t. | 1. | To mark with, or as with, botches. |
2. | To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; - sometimes with up. | |
3. | To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work. |
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Verb | 1. | botch - 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" |