Botch

Quick meaning: Botch is a verb meaning To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.

Meaning

To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.

More Meanings

1. To do (something) without care or skill, or clumsily.
2. To mend or repair (something) clumsily.
3. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
4. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
5. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
6. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
7. (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.

Example Sentences

Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,

A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.

That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:

The Lord wil smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scabbe, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not bee healed.

Word Forms

• botches
• botching
• botched

Synonyms for botch

Depending on context, synonyms include ruin, bungle, ball up, blight, bumble, contaminate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bungle, blunder, boo-boo, blooper, muck up, foul up.

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