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botch

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Botch was an American metalcore band formed in 1993 in Tacoma, Washington . The band, featuring Brian Cook , Dave Knudson , Tim Latona and Dave Verellen , spent four years as a garage band and released several demos and EPs before signing to Hydra Head ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., bocchen "to repair," later, "to spoil by unskillful work" (1520s); of unknown origin. Related: Botched ; botching . As a noun from c.1600.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder , blooper , bloomer , bungle , foul-up , fuckup , flub , boner , boo-boo ]

Usage examples of botch.

They handed Botch a naughty acting-out girl and got back this compliant little zombie.

In language and physical appearance, unlike this crude botch, it was flawless.

Let the fliers watch fuel economy and not botch their navigation, and there would be no splashes.

The divided command problem between MacArthur and Nimitz haunted the Pacific war and resulted in the stupendous botch at Leyte Gulf.

God can do that, the whole universe is a botch, and He is not an Almighty God.

Launching the words at her like so many spears, he shattered her dream of the loving parent as surely as Nhaille had botched her plan of escape.

Or parading past the Arc de Triomphe-why, the Reds who claim the resistance was botched will have a field day.

The attorney had botched only one major assignment since entering into his private relationship with the president of the W and P.

But lab results had been lost, tests botched, evidence turned up missing, and all the clues seemed to lead to dead ends.

But in this botched meeting, even that much might seem offensive disloyalty to Burne-Wilke.

Pity, that in His botched universe a Hector must unjustly die, and his poor corpse be dragged in the dust.

Dragged himself around for a week, taking aspirin, but then he triea an attack on a freighter and botched it.

And there had been more free time since he botched the L1 stabilization and Qiwi Lisolet took over.

I guess the doctor botched the delivery, and she had to have an emergency hysterectomy.

Bureaucratic botching, thoroughly unmilitary, characterized the execution of the policy from start to finish.