botch up

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botch up

verb botches up · botching up · botched up

informal, transitive To ruin, mess up. What the school books say about the united efforts of the two great Rossums is all a fairy tale. They used to have dreadful rows. The old atheist hadn't the slightest conception of industrial matters, and the end of it was that young Rossum shut him up in some laboratory or other and let him fritter

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verb ruin, mess up

Français	bousiller, gâter
Deutsch	verpfuschen, verderben
Русский	по́ртить pórtitʹ, испо́ртить ispórtitʹ, попо́ртить popórtitʹ

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@misc{botch_up_2026,
  title = {botch up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/botch%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}