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BOTCHED
bungled, botched
(adjective) spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; “a bungled job”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
botched
simple past tense and past participle of botch
Adjective
botched
Made or repaired in a clumsy or incompetent manner.
Synonym: bungled
Source: Wiktionary
BOTCH
Botch, n.; pl. Botches. Etym: [Same as Boss a stud. For senses 2 & 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat.]
1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.
2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
3. Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle. To leave no rubs nor botches in the work. Shak.
Botch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched; p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.] Etym: [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: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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