Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to botch
Participle: botched
Gerund: botching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | botch |
| you | botch |
| he;she;it | botches |
| we | botch |
| you | botch |
| they | botch |
Perfect
| I | have botched |
| you | have botched |
| he;she;it | has botched |
| we | have botched |
| you | have botched |
| they | have botched |
Past
| I | botched |
| you | botched |
| he;she;it | botched |
| we | botched |
| you | botched |
| they | botched |
Pluperfect
| I | had botched |
| you | had botched |
| he;she;it | had botched |
| we | had botched |
| you | had botched |
| they | had botched |
Future
| I | will botch |
| you | will botch |
| he;she;it | will botch |
| we | will botch |
| you | will botch |
| they | will botch |
Future Perfect
| I | will have botched |
| you | will have botched |
| he;she;it | will have botched |
| we | will have botched |
| you | will have botched |
| they | will have botched |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | botch |
| you | botch |
| he;she;it | botch |
| we | botch |
| you | botch |
| they | botch |
Perfect
| I | have botched |
| you | have botched |
| he;she;it | have botched |
| we | have botched |
| you | have botched |
| they | have botched |
Imperfect
| I | botched |
| you | botched |
| he;she;it | botched |
| we | botched |
| you | botched |
| they | botched |
Pluperfect
| I | had botched |
| you | had botched |
| he;she;it | had botched |
| we | had botched |
| you | had botched |
| they | had botched |
Conditional
Present
| I | would botch |
| you | would botch |
| he;she;it | would botch |
| we | would botch |
| you | would botch |
| they | would botch |
Perfect
| I | would have botched |
| you | would have botched |
| he;she;it | would have botched |
| we | would have botched |
| you | would have botched |
| they | would have botched |
Imperative
| you | botch |
| we | Let's botch |
| you | botch |
Verbs conjugated like 'botch'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'botch'
batch,
bitch,
blotch,
cotch,
hotch,
notch,
potch,
bach,
bath,
beach,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1382, bocchen "to repair," later, "to spoil by unskillful work" (1530), of unknown origin.
2. From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), related to boot, or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. Doublet of bodge.
Sample Sentences
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A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
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And other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […] [1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 75, column 1:]