transcription, транскрипция: [ bɒtʃ ]
( botches, botching, botched)
1.
If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily. ( INFORMAL )
It is a silly idea and he has botched it.
...a botched job.
= bungle
VERB : V n , V-ed
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Botch up means the same as botch .
I hate having builders botch up repairs on my house...
Hemingway complained that Nichols had ‘botched everything up’.
= mess up
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V n P
2.
If you make a botch of something that you are doing, you botch it. ( INFORMAL )
I rather made a botch of that whole thing.
= mess
N-COUNT : usu sing