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mess
noun
verb
A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
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noun
A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
noun
A meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
noun
Soft semiliquid food
“A mess of porridge”
noun
(often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
“A batch of letters”
noun
Informal terms for a difficult situation
“He got into a terrible fix”
noun
A state of confusion and disorderliness
“The house was a mess”
verb
Make a mess of or create disorder in
“He messed up his room”
verb
Eat in a mess hall
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A mess of porridge
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
He got into a terrible fix
He made a muddle of his marriage
The house was a mess
She smoothed the mussiness of the bed
He messed up his room
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