Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Botch \Botch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Botched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Botching}.] [See {Botch}, n.]
1. To mark with, or as with, botches.
Young Hylas, botched with stains. --Garth.
2. To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect
manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a
time. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
3. To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or
perform in a bungling manner; to spoil or mar, as by
unskillful work.
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
--Dryden.
Source : WordNet®
botched
adj : spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job"
[syn: {bungled}]