- A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil;
an eruptive disease. - A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in
a clumsy manner. - Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a
piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly
finished; a bungle. - To mark with, or as with, botches. - To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect
manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up. - To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or
perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
Meaning of 'botch' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . botch
[ v]
Meaning (1): - make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Example in sentence:
I botched the dinner and we had to eat out;
the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement