







mess up
screw up
botch
ruin
He had messed up one career.
Sorry, guys. I goofed.

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Open the tool →搞砸 (gǎo zá) means “mess up, screw up, botch, ruin”.
搞砸 is pronounced gǎo zá in Mandarin Chinese.
“mess up” is 搞砸 (gǎo zá) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 搞砸, each with pinyin and an English translation.