0 present participle of botch
1 to spoil something by doing it badly:
We botched (up) our first attempt at wallpapering the bathroom.
Again, in these amendments a number of botching attempts are made to do this.
Features of a house or a building are preserved from disintegration, from disappearance, or the owner is prevented from botching the thing on his own.
After a botched privatisation, are we not in danger of his botching what is, in fact, a sensible solution?
In fact, it is an encouragement to botching it up.
Once again we have the same last-minute emergency action, and the same botching.
Instead of having a botching improvement made we ought to have the best improvement that will add to the letting value.
Who arranged the initial botching and who then arranged the bullying?
The firm was botching along as best it could, grateful for young students who were willing to work on the machines for a few weeks during their holidays.
