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verb

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, spoil, muck up,
bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up,
bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up
• Derivationally related forms:
fuckup (for: fuck up), mess-up (for: mess up), foul-up (for: foul up), fluff (for: fluff), bungle (for: bungle), bungler (for: bungle), spoil (for: spoil), spoilage (for: spoil), spoiling (for: spoil), ballup, screwup (for: screw up), flub (for: flub), fumbler (for: fumble), bumbler (for: bumble), botcher (for: botch), botch (for: botch)
• Hypernyms:
fail, go wrong, miscarry
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something