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BOTCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does botch mean? 

BOTCH (noun)
  The noun BOTCH has 1 sense:

1. an embarrassing mistake

  Familiarity information: BOTCH used as a noun is very rare.


BOTCH (verb)
  The verb BOTCH has 1 sense:

1. make a mess of, destroy or ruin

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BOTCH (noun)


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Meaning:

An embarrassing mistake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

botch; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; foul-up; bungle; flub; bloomer; pratfall; fuckup

Hypernyms ("botch" is a kind of...):

error; fault; mistake (a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "botch"):

bobble (the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball)

clanger (a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate)

howler (a glaring blunder)

faux pas; gaffe; gaucherie; slip; solecism (a socially awkward or tactless act)

fluff (a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines))

fumble; muff ((sports) dropping the ball)

bull (a serious and ludicrous blunder)

spectacle (a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase 'make a spectacle of' yourself)

snafu (an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up)

misstep; stumble; trip; trip-up (an unintentional but embarrassing blunder)


BOTCH (verb)


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Meaning:

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bungle; flub; fluff; foul up; fuck up; louse up; mess up; mishandle; muck up; bumble; botch up; ball 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 "botch" is one way to...):

fail; go wrong; miscarry (be unsuccessful)

Sentence frames:

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


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