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    BOTCH UP

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Make a mess of, destroy or ruinplay

    Example:

    the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement

    Synonyms:

    spoil; screw up; muff; muck up; mishandle; mess up; louse up; fumble; fuck up; foul up; fluff; flub; bungle; bumble; botch up; botch; bollocks up; bollocks; bollix up; bollix; bodge; bobble; blow; ball up

    Classified under:

    Verbs of political and social activities and events

    Hypernyms (to "botch up" is one way to...):

    fail; go wrong; miscarry (be unsuccessful)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something

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