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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Botch \Botch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Botched}; p. pr & vb n.
{Botching}.] [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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
botched
adj : spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job"
[syn: {bungled}]
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