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• past participle of botch.
• past tense form of botch.

botched

American  

[bocht] / bɒtʃt /

adjective

1. spoiled by poor or clumsy work; bungled.

   The teachers are up in arms about the botched rollout of the new standards, which caused unnecessary confusion and stress for them and their students.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of botch.

Other Word Forms

• botchedly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of botched

botch ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

botched

Christa Pike has made a "profound" turnaround after last week's botched attempt to execute her in the US state of Tennessee, her lawyers say.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Lawyers for 46-year-old Jamaal Howard had asked a judge to pause the execution in light of Pike's botched injections last week, according to the BBC's US partner, CBS News.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

I think in some ways, this botched execution is emblematic of how everybody understands now what happens in that room, but the jurisprudence and the technologies have occluded that for most of us.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

Tennessee Department of Correction Commissioner Frank Strada is resigning this month following the botched execution of Christa Pike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Treebaun progressed quickly through each student’s recap and repercussion track, and I watched a botched Kennedy assassination simulation, a Watergate mess, and a rather iffy situation involving Ben Franklin, but none of them were Elliot’s.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Related Words

• broken
• cracked
• damaged
• defective
• deficient
• erroneous
• false
• flawed
• imprecise
• inaccurate
• inadequate
• incomplete
• insufficient
• invalid
• leaky
• malfunctioning
• unreliable