botch up
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Simpler operations mean fewer things that can go awry and botch up the whole process.
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2012
His Columbia colleague, Henry Linford, chemical engineering professor, retorted that "You can't botch up our educational system just to circumvent a Government order," and Dean David Truman calls overgrading a "violation of intellectual trust."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Even when you botch up, it's worth it," notes Peter Moller, 58, a retired Colorado college professor who took a brushup course and then led a trip to the Galapagos.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am at present here to botch up a piece of work, which was originally well imagined but badly executed.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX by Sparks, Jared
