What is the difference between A: ruin and B: mess up ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
Ruined is more negative and mess up is a more positive version for example -
"You ruined the cake!"
"You messed up the cake!"
If you really don't like the person you could say ruined but if you want to candy coat it a little you could say messed up
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Ruined is more negative and mess up is a more positive version for example -
"You ruined the cake!"
"You messed up the cake!"
If you really don't like the person you could say ruined but if you want to candy coat it a little you could say messed up
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