botched up
botched up is the simple past and past participle of botch up.
Meaning of botch up
Verb
botch up (third-person singular simple present botches up, present participle botching up, simple past and past participle botched up)
- 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...c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act...
Adjective
botched up (comparative more botched up, superlative most botched up)
Forms of botched up
| comparative | more botched up |
|---|---|
| superlative | most botched up |
Questions about botched up
- What does botched up mean?
- Botched up means botched utterly; failed; ruined.
- What is botched up the simple past and past participle of?
- Botched up is the simple past and past participle of botch up.
- What part of speech is botched up?
- Botched up is an adjective.
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