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[ verb ] make a mess of, destroy or ruin

Examples

"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out" "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

Used in print

(Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)

`` They 're going_to louse me up good .

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

The Man_from_Mars had interrupted him with his work half finished - and that stupid jackass Short was certain to louse_it_up .

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