zá
to smash
to pound
to fail
to muck up
to bungle
zá suì
to pulverize
to smash to bits
bān shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo
to move a stone and stub one's toe
to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)
zá hāng
to pound the earth to make a building foundation
bān zhuān zá jiǎo
to hurt oneself by one's own doing
to boomerang
to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)
gǎo zá
to mess (sth) up
to foul up
to spoil
bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo
to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom)
hoisted by one's own petard
zá guō mài tiě
to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)