失事
shī​shì

to have an accident

失事 shī//shì
to have an accident verb + noun
(of a plane, ship, or vehicle) to have an accident, such as a crash or shipwreck; to suffer a mishap

所幸，飞机失事后并未起火。

suǒ​xìng, fēi​jī shī shì hòu bìng​wèi qǐ huǒ.

Luckily, the plane did not catch fire after the crash.

to mess up
(literary) to mismanage things; to fail in one's duties or tasks, often due to a mistake or negligence

Frequency
Movie subtitles
4.05 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
3.29 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)