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Meaning of mess

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mess
      n 1: a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a
           mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn:
           {mess}, {messiness}, {muss}, {mussiness}]
      2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a
         terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn:
         {fix}, {hole}, {jam}, {mess}, {muddle}, {pickle}, {kettle of
         fish}]
      3: soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
      4: a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
      5: a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or
         relax [syn: {mess}, {mess hall}]
      6: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
         "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" [syn:
         {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}]
      v 1: eat in a mess hall
      2: make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
         [syn: {mess}, {mess up}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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