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M0240000 (mĕs)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.Phrasal Verbs: mess around (or about)1. To pass time aimlessly or frivolously.2. To associate casually or playfully: liked to mess around with pals on days off.3. To be sexually unfaithful. mess up1. To botch; bungle: messed up the entire project.2. To make a mistake, especially from nervousness or confusion: messed up and dropped the ball.3. Slang To beat up; manhandle: got messed up in a brawl.4. To cause to be confused or troubled: The divorce really messed him up. mess with1. To use or handle something carelessly; fiddle: messed with the remote until he broke it.2. To fight or get into conflict with: I wouldn't mess with him—he knows judo.3. To tease or play a joke on: Don't let that remark bother you—she's just messing with you.

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[Middle English mes, course of a meal, food, group of people eating together, from Old French, from Late Latin missus, from Latin, past participle of mittere, to place.]

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Verb	1.	mess up - make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, louse up, mishandle, muck up, ball up, spoil, muff, screw up, fumble, blowgo wrong, miscarry, fail - be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
	2.	mess up - disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water"ruffle up, rumple, ruffledisarrange - destroy the arrangement or order of; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk"
	3.	mess up - make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"messdisarray, disorder - bring disorder to

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noun1. A group of things gathered haphazardly:agglomeration, bank, cumulus, drift, heap, hill, mass, mound, mountain, pile, shock, stack, tumble.2. A lack of order or regular arrangement:chaos, clutter, confusedness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorderedness, disorderliness, disorganization, jumble, mix-up, muddle, muss, scramble, topsy-turviness, tumble.Slang: snafu.3. A ruinous state of disorder:botch, foul-up, muddle, shambles.Informal: hash.Slang: screwup, snafu.4. An unsightly object:monstrosity, ugliness.Informal: fright, sight, ugly.5. An individual quantity of food:helping, portion, serving.verb1. To handle something idly, ignorantly, or destructively:fiddle, fool, meddle, tamper, tinker.Informal: monkey.2. To put (the hair or clothes) into a state of disarray.Also used with up:disarrange, dishevel, disorder, muss (up), rumple, tousle.phrasal verb
mess around1. Informal. To waste time by engaging in aimless activity:doodle, fool, putter.Informal: fool around.2. Informal. To be nervously or uselessly active:bustle, fuss, putter.3. Informal. To be sexually unfaithful to another:philander, womanize.Informal: cheat, fool around, play around.phrasal verb
mess up1. To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess:ball up, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, foul up, fumble, gum up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil.Informal: bollix up, muck up.Slang: blow, goof up, louse up, screw up, snafu.Idiom: make a muck of.2. To put into total disorder:ball up, confuse, disorder, jumble, muddle, scramble, snarl.Slang: snafu.Idiom: play havoc with.3. To put out of proper order:derange, disarrange, disarray, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, jumble, mix up, muddle, tumble, unsettle, upset.4. Slang. To be rough or brutal with:knock about (or around), manhandle, rough (up), slap around.

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mess

(mes) noun a state of disorder or confusion; an untidy, dirty or unpleasant sight or muddle. This room is in a terrible mess!; She looked a mess; The spilt food made a mess on the carpet. 混亂 混乱 verb (with with) to meddle, or to have something to do with. She's always messing with the television set. 亂弄，胡搞 摆弄ˈmessy adjective dirty. a messy job. 髒亂的，棘手討厭的 肮脏的，难以处理的，令人厌烦的 ˈmessily adverb 髒亂地 杂乱地ˈmessiness noun 髒亂 混乱ˈmess-up noun a muddle or state of confusion. There has been a mess-up in the timetable. 混亂 混乱make a mess of1. to make dirty, untidy or confused. The heavy rain has made a real mess of the garden. 弄髒，弄亂，擾亂 把...搞乱，扰乱，弄乱 2. to do badly. He made a mess of his essay. 弄糟 把...弄糟3. to spoil or ruin (eg one's life). He made a mess of his life by drinking too much. 毀掉 毁掉mess about/around1. to behave in a foolish or annoying way. The children were shouting and messing about. 胡鬧 瞎捣乱2. to work with no particular plan in a situation that involves mess. I love messing about in the kitchen. 混日子，閒來無事東搞西搞 混日子3. (with with) to meddle or interfere with. Who's been messing about with my papers? 干涉 干涉4. to upset or put into a state of disorder or confusion. The wind messed her hair about. 弄亂，擾亂 弄乱，搞乱 mess up to spoil; to make a mess of. Don't mess the room up! 弄亂 搞乱

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