· 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"

Synonym(s): botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch_up, muff, blow, flub, screw_up, ball_up, spoil, muck_up, fluff, bollix, bollix_up, bollocks, bollocks_up, bobble, mishandle, louse_up, foul_up, mess_up, fuck_up

Hypernym(s): fail, go_wrong, miscarry

· spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly; "I bungled it!"

Hypernym(s): act, behave, do

· showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf"

Synonym(s): clumsy, fumbling, incompetent

· lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse

Synonym(s): bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed