Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.

And other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […]

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

If it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good natured—he 's a gentleman, sir—and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it—remember what I'm saying, Doctor—'twas I that done it; I was always a botch, Puddock, an' a fool; and—and—gentlemen—good-by.

Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs,

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

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Use botch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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