I. verb
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Defense lawyers are arguing that the police botched the investigation.
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Botched Not when he has botched reunification and his country's interest rates cripple home-owners and industries far beyond his own borders.
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Anglers wait a lifetime for such a chance, and I had botched mine.
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Baldwin, the poor schlemiel, is talked into committing a murder, which he botches badly.
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California did not deregulate its electricity system-the government changed the regulations, and botched the job.
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The handover to Edinburgh, Cardiff and London was botched, but it was Labour that created the new bodies.
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The others were beheaded first; her executioner botched her beheading and left her to endure a three-day death.
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We talked earlier about the computer marketing firm that had badly botched one of its first major corporate sales.
II. noun
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Kyoto was a botch from the start, and it was inevitable it would come unstuck.