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

1. noun. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
2. noun. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. To mark with, or as with, botches.
5. noun. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
6. noun. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
7. noun. an embarrassing mistake

   Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, bungle, flub, fuckup, pratfall

8. 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"

   Synonyms: blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, fumble, mishandle, muff

Synonyms

bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, bungle, flub, fuckup, pratfall, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollocks, bumble, fluff, fumble, mishandle, muff, spoil

Common word forms

botched, botcher, botches, botching

Words from these letters

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