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BODGE

Dictionary entry overview: What does bodge mean?

• BODGE (verb)
The verb BODGE has 1 sense:

1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Familiarity information: BODGE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BODGE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

ball up; flub; fluff; foul up; fuck up; louse up; mess up; mishandle; muck up; bungle; bumble; botch up; bobble; bodge; bollix; bollix up; bollocks; bollocks up; botch; spoil; muff; screw up; fumble; blow

Context examples:

I botched the dinner and we had to eat out / the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement

Hypernyms (to "bodge" is one way to...):

fail; go wrong; miscarry (be unsuccessful)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

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