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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Botch \Botch\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Botched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Botching}.] [See {Botch}, noun]
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 bungle; to spoil or mar, as by unskillful work.
For treason botched in rhyme will be thy bane. --Dryden.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
botched
adjective: spoiled through incompetence or clumsiness; "a bungled job" [syn: {bungled}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "botched": blighted, bungled, bungling, butchered, clumsy, deficient, destroyed, fumbled, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, marred, messy, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered, negligent, promiscuous, ruined, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, spoiled, spoilt, untidy, wrecked
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