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Meaning of botch

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  botch
      n 1: an embarrassing mistake [syn: {blunder}, {blooper},
           {bloomer}, {bungle}, {pratfall}, {foul-up}, {fuckup},
           {flub}, {botch}, {boner}, {boo-boo}]
      v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and
           we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult
           passage in the second movement" [syn: {botch}, {bodge},
           {bumble}, {fumble}, {botch up}, {muff}, {blow}, {flub},
           {screw up}, {ball up}, {spoil}, {muck up}, {bungle},
           {fluff}, {bollix}, {bollix up}, {bollocks}, {bollocks up},
           {bobble}, {mishandle}, {louse up}, {foul up}, {mess up},
           {fuck up}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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