Botching

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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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