If you botch something, you make a mess of it or you ruin it. If you totally botch your lines in the school play, you stammer and stutter your way through the whole thing. Interestingly, the word botch originally meant the opposite of what it means today.
Is botch a real word?
a clumsy or poor piece of work; bungle: He made a complete botch of his first attempt at baking.
How do you use botched in a sentence?
spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness.
- We botched our first attempt at wallpapering the bathroom.
- The builders really botched up our patio.
- It is a silly idea and he has botched it.
- The funding was withdrawn after they botched up the first stage of the research.
