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botching up

botching up is the present participle and gerund 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)

  1. (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...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...

Questions about botching up

What is botching up the present participle and gerund of?
Botching up is the present participle and gerund of botch up.

Words near botching up in the dictionary

  1. botchier
  2. botchiest
  3. botchily
  4. botchiness
  5. botching
  6. botching up
  7. botchwork
  8. botchy
  9. botcinic acid
  10. botcinin
  11. botcinins

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