muff vs botch

muff and botch both are nouns.

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

As nouns, botch is a hypernym of muff; that is, botch is a word with a broader meaning than muff:

Other hypernyms of muff include bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall.

As verbs, muff and botch are synonyms defined as:

muff (noun)	botch (noun)
(sports) dropping the ball	an embarrassing mistake
a warm tubular covering for the hands

muff (verb)	botch (verb)
make a mess of, destroy or ruin	make a mess of, destroy or ruin
fail to catch, as of a ball