Dictionary Entry
botch
botch is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
- 2noun
A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
To mark with, or as with, botches.
- 5noun
To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
- 6noun
To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
- 7noun
an embarrassing mistake
- 8verb
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"
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