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- [boch]
- /bɒtʃ/
- /bɒtʃ/
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- [boch]
- /bɒtʃ/
Definitions of botch word
- verb botch If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily. 3
- verb botch Botch up means the same as botch. 3
- countable noun botch If you make a botch of something that you are doing, you botch it. 3
- verb botch to spoil through clumsiness or ineptitude 3
- verb botch to repair badly or clumsily 3
- noun botch a badly done piece of work or repair (esp in the phrase make a botch of (something)) 3
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Origin of botch
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English bocchen to patch up; perhaps to be identified with bocchen to swell up, bulge (verbal derivative of bocche botch2), though sense development unclear
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Parts of speech for Botch
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botch popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for botch
verb botch
- bumble — to speak or do in a clumsy, muddled, or inefficient way
- screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- miscalculate — Calculate (an amount, distance, or measurement) wrongly.
- flub — a blunder.
- misjudge — Form a wrong opinion or conclusion about.
Antonyms for botch
verb botch
- create — To create something means to cause it to happen or exist.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- accomplish — If you accomplish something, you succeed in doing it.
- achieve — If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
- succeed — to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result: Our efforts succeeded.
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