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Meanings of
botch
in English
Portuguese
fiasco
Catalan
bunyol
Spanish
disparate
Back to the meaning
An embarrassing mistake.
blunder
bungle
bloomer
boner
fuckup
flub
blooper
pratfall
boo-boo
foul-up
Portuguese
fiasco
Portuguese
borrar
Catalan
espifiar
Spanish
arruinar
Back to the meaning
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.
blow
spoil
fumble
muff
fluff
bumble
bollocks
bobble
bodge
mishandle
Portuguese
borrar
Synonyms
Examples for "
blunder
"
blunder
bungle
bloomer
boner
fuckup
Examples for "
blunder
"
1
We find a similar
blunder
in Spain, in the time of Cervantes:-
2
Volvo attributes the
blunder
to a battery problem caused by human error.
3
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has already apologised for the border
blunder
.
4
That incident, which NATO called a tragic
blunder
,
triggered widespread violent protests.
5
Women are a
blunder
in the creation, and must take the consequences.
1
Mr Andrews has publicly taken personal responsibility for the hotel quarantine
bungle
.
2
That's an unbelievably catastrophic
bungle
right at the front door, Stefanovic said.
3
This bureaucratic
bungle
persisted for more than two years until October 2018.
4
Of course he made a terrible
bungle
of it to start with.
5
He must understand his position, so as not to
bungle
the thing.
1
Nobody stops to think about whether she's a late
bloomer
or not.
2
Most of the employes were women, dressed in the American
bloomer
costume.
3
He felt that he had perpetrated a
bloomer
of no slight magnitude.
4
She nestled a geranium, a bright magenta
bloomer
,
in a secure spot.
5
Mama said I was a late
bloomer
,
and I guess I was.
1
Doesn't affect me-I'vehad a
boner
since we got back in the tent.
2
This goes beyond the search for the ultimate
boner
,
doesn't it?
3
You should tell them you have a
boner
,
and you can't do gym.
4
Her gaze faltered then focused, first on me, then on my sheet-tenting
boner
.
5
I had a big
boner
and she waved me over with her hand.
1
I don't want the same kind of
fuckup
that happened last time.
2
My reputation with HPD fluctuated somewhere between a laughingstock and a
fuckup
.
3
Someone had to pay for the
fuckup
that nearly killed his squad.
4
You sure pulled a royal
fuckup
at Earth House, didn't you?
5
Gambrelli said, Johnny was family, but he was a
fuckup
.
1
Someone could simply guess, or
flub
the answer through a silly mistake.
2
Sending out mass apology for the address book
flub
later today.
3
You remember that
flub
of hers last year at the festival for Hermes?
4
He didn't do a thing wrong except
flub
a few of his lines.
5
It was one
flub
after another-doubledbecause of Judith copying me!
1
Read: 'Unfathomable'
blooper
gifts England victory Kane gets tackled to the ground.
2
But it turns out that this is, technically, not actually a
blooper
.
3
CAN you believe it's been a whole year since Natasha Exelby's
blooper
went viral?
4
Ehlers nearly put himself and the Jets on the
blooper
reel just seconds earlier.
5
After the LSBees incident, more
blooper
footage occupies the screen.
1
At this point you might expect a self-deprecating tale of my
pratfall
.
2
Pretending to get knocked off balance, Sleep took a
pratfall
onto the concrete.
3
And what's a Blake Edwards party without a face-first
pratfall
?
4
It suggests that their apparent indifference to McGill's
pratfall
is symptomatic of their despair.
5
Hands caught me as I sailed into a full-out
pratfall
.
1
Intending to suggest that every
boo
-
boo
could be a source of joy.
2
Famous person makes public
boo
-
boo
,
followed by even more public apology.
3
Julie has a real injury, this is just a
boo
-
boo
.
4
He wept from a
boo
-
boo
,
or if he was tired.
5
I'd say he may have made a big-time
boo
-
boo
.
1
No, he wasn't blaming the young ensign for the sensors'
foul
-
up
.
2
Rex and Melissa's little
foul
-
up
at Constanza's had cost Madeleine her psychic cover.
3
Any
foul
-
up
can be damaging or fatal to the organism.
4
Fortunately this kind of
foul
-
up
is on the ground.
5
Canon hasn't worked out a fix for this latest
foul
-
up
yet, but we have a suggestion.
Usage of
botch
in English
1
In fact, he argued forcefully against the
botch
-
up
,
to great personal cost.
2
It was something of a
botch
,
too, in an extremely pleasant way.
3
The National Party called for Clark to be sacked after the
botch
-
up
.
4
BP's wooden CEO has seemed able to
botch
even the friendliest interviews.
5
I must
botch
up the accounts, I see,-thesquire has grown sharp.
6
We attempted to capture him, but made a
botch
of the business.
7
Nobody but Fanchette could have made them look anything but a
botch
.
8
Now to be sure, we can certainly
botch
it if we're not careful.
9
They said that New Zealand could not
botch
another World Cup.
10
We make a simplified image of nature and then we
botch
it up.
11
I'm afraid between us we made rather a
botch
of things.
12
The ancients were particularly chary of allowing mere novices to
botch
their work.
13
So, more of a domestic
botch
than an international battle royal.
14
Outbreaks of insanity and
botch
-
up
reside everywhere in the parliamentary precinct.
15
I can see that I made a
botch
of it generally, Mr. Jerrard.
16
They really must, before I make a worse
botch
of things.
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About this term
botch
Noun
Singular
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
make a botch
botch even
botch job
botch things
political botch
More collocations
Translations for
botch
Portuguese
fiasco
gafe
bobagem
borrar
meter os pés pelas mãos
trabalhar mal
foder tudo
fazer às pressas
fazer besteira
Catalan
bunyol
pífia
espifiada
espifiar
cagar-la
espatllar
fer barroerament
arruïnar
esguerrar
fotre
Spanish
disparate
cante
cagada
equivocación
estropeo
metedura de pata
chapucería
embrollo
plancha
blooper
caída
patochada
arruinar
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Botch
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