botch

Noun
  1. An embarrassing mistake (synset 100075610)
    is a type of: error, fault, mistake - a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
    subtypes:
    • bobble - the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
    • snafu - an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: situation normal all fucked up
    • spectacle - a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself
    • bull - a serious and ludicrous blunder
    • fumble, muff - (sports) dropping the ball
    • fluff - a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
    • faux pas, gaffe, gaucherie, slip, solecism - a socially awkward or tactless act
    • howler - a glaring blunder
    • clanger - a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate
    • misstep, stumble, trip, trip-up - an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
    same as: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall
Verb
  1. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin (synset 202533317)
    "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
    is a type of: fail, go wrong, miscarry - be unsuccessful
    same as: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil

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