Usually means: To mess up a task.
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  1. botch: Merriam-Webster
  2. botch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. botch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. botch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. botch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Botch, botch: Wordnik
  7. botch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. botch: Wiktionary
  9. botch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. botch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. botch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Botch, botch: Dictionary.com
  13. botch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. botch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Botch (band), Botch (professional wrestling), Botch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Botch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. botch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. botch: Rhymezone
  19. botch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. botch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Botch: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. botch: FreeDictionary.org
  23. botch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. botch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. botch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. botch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. botch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. botch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. botch: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. botch: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botch: Easton Bible
  2. BOTCH: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. botch, botch, botch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. botch (up): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. b'otch, botch: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (botch)

verb:  (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
verb:  To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
verb:  To repair or mend clumsily.
noun:  An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
noun:  A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
noun:  A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
noun:  A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
noun:  (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.
noun:  (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
noun:  A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

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