The Collaborative International Dictionary
Botch \Botch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Botched; p. pr. & vb. n. Botching.] [See Botch, n.]
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To mark with, or as with, botches.
Young Hylas, botched with stains.
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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). -
To put together unsuitably or unskillfully; to express or perform in a bungling manner; to bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of botch English)
Usage examples of "botching".
Bureaucratic botching, thoroughly unmilitary, characterized the execution of the policy from start to finish.