I. botch 1 /bɒtʃ $ bɑːtʃ/ BrE AmE ( 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
II. botch 2 BrE AmE ( 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.