Difference between Botch Up and Botch

BOTCH UP vs BOTCH: NOUN

An embarrassing mistake
A ruined or defective piece of work.
A hodgepodge.
A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil.
A bungled or ill-finished part; a flaw; a blemish.
A patch, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
That which is botched; ill-finished or bungled work generally.
A bungling, unskilful workman or operator of any kind; a botcher.
Work done in a bungling manner; a clumsy performance; a piece of work, or a place in work, marred in the doing, or not properly finished; a bungle.
A tumour or other malignant swelling.
A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly.
A ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work; mess; bungle.
A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.

To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something; to ruin; to bungle; to spoil; to destroy.
To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin

To mark with, or as with, botches.
To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; -- sometimes with up.
To repair or mend clumsily or ineptly.
To perform poorly or ruin through clumsiness or ineptitude.

To mark with botches.
To mend or patch in a clumsy manner, as a garment: often used figuratively.
To put together unsuitably or unskilfully; perform, express, etc., in a bungling manner; hence, to spoil by unskilful work; bungle.
To mend or patch things in an unskilful manner; be a bungler or botcher.

Mess up, Screw up, Bobble, Fluff, Muff, Fumble, Blow, Bollocks, Spoil, Bollix, Mishandle, Blunder, Flub, Bungle, Botch

Misdoing, Screw up, Bollocks, Blooper, Bobble, Boner, Fumble, Spoil, Blow, Muff, Bollix, Mishandle, Blunder, Flub, Bungle

Foul up, Mess up, Screw up, Bobble, Fluff, Fumble, Blow, Bollocks, Spoil, Bollix, Mishandle, Blunder, Flub, Bungle, Botch

Fluff, Misdoing, Screw up, Bollocks, Blooper, Bobble, Boner, Fumble, Spoil, Blow, Bollix, Mishandle, Blunder, Flub, Bungle

It sounds simple, but if something goes wrong you could botch up some software, or even worse fry your computer.
Getting all this right before going public should help you avoid a right royal botch up.
In fact the SABC never communicated its gargantuan botch up to them.