botch up

Questions about botch up

What does botch up mean?

botch up means "make a mess of, destroy or ruin".

What is another word for botch up?

Close synonyms include botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, muff. 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 up a common word?

botch up 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.