fault vs botch

fault and botch both are nouns.

fault and botch both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fault	Yes	No	Yes	No
botch	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, botch is a hyponym of fault; that is, botch is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fault:

fault: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
botch: an embarrassing mistake

Other hyponyms of fault include blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain, confusion, mix-up, incursion, miscalculation, misestimation, misreckoning, distortion, miscue, parapraxis, slip-up, slip, offside, lapse, oversight, omission, skip, bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall, balls-up, ballup, cockup, mess-up, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, renege, revoke.

fault (noun)	botch (noun)
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention	an embarrassing mistake
(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)
the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection
responsibility for a bad situation or event
(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)
(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
an imperfection in an object or machine

fault (verb)	botch (verb)
put or pin the blame on	make a mess of, destroy or ruin

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