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to botch
01
to do a task badly or carelessly, causing mistakes or damage
Transitive: to botch sth
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
botch
3rd person singular
botches
Present participle
botching
Past simple
botched
Past participle
botched
Examples
He completely botched the repair and made the leak worse.
Botch
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
botches
Examples
Her botch in handling the presentation left the audience confused and unimpressed.
Lexical Tree
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