botch
botch has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.
Definitions
- n.. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
- n.. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
- n.. 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.
- n.. To mark with, or as with, botches.
- n.. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
- n.. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
- n.. an embarrassing mistake
- v.. 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"