make a mess of, destroy or ruin; I botched the dinner and we had to eat out; the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement

[ Syn: botch , bodge , bumble , fumble , botch up , muff , blow , flub , screw up , ball up , spoil , muck up , bungle , fluff , bollix , bollix up , bollocks , bollocks up , bobble , louse up , foul up , mess up , fuck up ]

manage badly or incompetently; The funds were mismanaged

[ Syn: mismanage , misconduct ]