Botched

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Botch \Botch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Botched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Botching}.] [See {Botch}, n.]
     1. To mark with, or as with, botches.
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              Young Hylas, botched with stains.     --Garth.


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     2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect
        manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
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              Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a
              time.                                 --Robynson
                                                    (More's
                                                    Utopia).
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     3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or
        perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar,
        as by unskillful work.
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              For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
                                                    --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  botched
       adj : spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job"
             [syn: {bungled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "botched":
     blighted, bungled, bungling, butchered, clumsy, deficient,
     destroyed, fumbled, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss,
     hit-or-miss, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived,
     ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic,
     marred, messy, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged,
     muffed, murdered, negligent, promiscuous, ruined, slipshod,
     slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, spoiled, spoilt, untidy,
     wrecked