WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

botch up
    v 1: 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, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up,
         fuck up]