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Mess

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Noun

1. mess, messiness, muss, mussiness

a state of confusion and disorderliness

Example Sentences:
'the house was a mess'
'she smoothed the mussiness of the bed'

2. fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle

informal terms for a difficult situation

Example Sentences:
'he got into a terrible fix'
'he made a muddle of his marriage'

3. mess

soft semiliquid food

Example Sentences:
'a mess of porridge'

4. mess

a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel

5. mess, mess hall

a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

6. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad

(often followed by of') a large number or amount or extent

Example Sentences:
'a batch of letters'
'a deal of trouble'
'a lot of money'
'he made a mint on the stock market'
'see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos'
'it must have cost plenty'
'a slew of journalists'
'a wad of money'

Verb

7. mess

eat in a mess hall

8. mess, mess up

make a mess of or create disorder in

Example Sentences:
'He messed up his room'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Mess

see synonyms of mess
noun
1. 
a state of confusion or untidiness, esp if dirty or unpleasant
the house was in a mess
2. 
a chaotic or troublesome state of affairs; muddle
his life was a mess
3. informal
a dirty or untidy person or thing
4. archaic
a portion of food, esp soft or semiliquid food
5. 
a place where service personnel eat or take recreation
an officers' mess
6. 
a group of people, usually servicemen, who eat together
7. 
the meal so taken
8.  mess of pottage
verb
9. (transitive; often foll by up)
to muddle or dirty
10. (intransitive)
to make a mess
11. (intransitive; often foll by with)
to interfere; meddle
12. (intr; often foll by with or together) military
to group together, esp for eating

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Mess

see synonyms of mess
noun
1. 
a portion or quantity of food for a meal or dish
2. 
a portion of soft or semiliquid food, as porridge
3. 
unappetizing food; disagreeable concoction
4. 
a. 
a group of people who regularly have their meals together, as in the army
b. 
the meal eaten by such a group
c. 
the place where it is eaten
5. 
a disorderly or confused collection or mass of things; jumble; hodgepodge
6. 
a. 
a state of embarrassment, trouble, difficulty, or confusion; muddle
b. 
a state of being disorderly, untidy, or dirty
c.  US, Informal
a person in either of these states
7.  Informal
a messy or disorderly place or condition
the house is a mess!
verb transitive
8. 
to supply meals to
9. 
to make a mess of; specif., to make dirty, soiled, or untidy; also, to bungle; muddle; botch
often with up
verb intransitive
10. 
to eat as one of a mess (sense 4) mess (sense 4a)
11. 
to make a mess
12. 
to putter (with)
13. 
to meddle (in or with)

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Mess

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n.
1.
a. A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty place or condition: The kitchen was a mess.
b. Something that is disorderly or dirty, as a accumulation or heap: Who left the mess on the kitchen floor?
2.
a. A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition or situation: With divorce and bankruptcy proceedings pending, his personal life was in a mess.
b. One that is in such a condition: They made a mess of their marriage. Her boyfriend is a real mess.
3.
a. An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish: cooked up a mess of fish.
b. A serving of soft, semiliquid food: a mess of porridge.
4.
a. A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.
b. Food or a meal served to such a group: took mess with the enlistees.
c. A mess hall.
v. messed, mess·ing, mess·es
v.tr.
To make disorderly or dirty: The wind has messed your hair. The puppy messed the floor.
v.intr.
1. To cause or make a mess.
2. To intrude; interfere: messing in the neighbors' affairs.
3. To take a meal in a military mess.

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