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Antonyms for botched
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : boch |
Phonetic Transcription : bɒtʃ |
Definition of botched
Origin :- late 14c., bocchen "to repair," later, "to spoil by unskillful work" (1520s); of unknown origin. Related: Botched; botching. As a noun from c.1600.
- verb blunder
- The Fury of suicides who know they have botched up life for good.
- Extract from : « The Moon is Green » by Fritz Reuter Leiber
- My aunt rushed to the bureau, and there she saw the patched and botched wreck.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, October 12, 1880 » by Various
- "It's botched," said Mr. Tooting, whose artistic soul was jarred.
- Extract from : « Mr. Crewe's Career, Complete » by Winston Churchill
- What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters?
- Extract from : « Anthem » by Ayn Rand
- I botched every single putt, and if I hadn't done that—— Hallo!'
- Extract from : « Pincher Martin, O.D. » by H. Taprell Dorling
- I'm not inclined to surrender, or to stand by men who have botched our business for us.
- Extract from : « No Defense, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
- If you left the transaction to somebody like St. Cyr, say, it would be botched.
- Extract from : « The Ego Machine » by Henry Kuttner
- If you have botched his plans as you have ours, he would have you shot.
- Extract from : « The Blue Grass Seminary Girls on the Water » by Carolyn Judson Burnett
- I have botched and cobbled, but at best I have but patched a rent.
- Extract from : « Pot-Boilers » by Clive Bell
- The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.
- Extract from : « The Antichrist » by F. W. Nietzsche
Synonyms for botched
- blow
- bobble
- boggle
- bollix
- boot
- bumble
- bungle
- butcher
- distort
- err
- fall down
- flounder
- flub
- fumble
- goof up
- gum up
- louse up
- mar
- mend
- mess
- mess up
- misapply
- miscalculate
- miscompute
- misconjecture
- misconstrue
- mishandle
- misjudge
- mismanage
- muck up
- muddle
- muff
- mutilate
- patch
- pull a boner
- ruin
- screw up
- spoil
- stumble
- wreck
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