botch

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsbodgebumblefumblebotch upmuffblowflubscrew upball upspoilmuck upbunglefluffbollix

   Broaderfail

Other forms of botch

plural

botches·

past tense

botched·

present participle

botching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about botch

What does botch mean?

botch means "an embarrassing mistake". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in botch?

botch has 1 syllable: botch. In IPA it is /ˈbɑtʃ/.

What is another word for botch?

Close synonyms include blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is botch a common word?

botch is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with botch?

1 word rhymes with botch. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.