1. • noun - a state of confusion and disorderliness
   • noun - informal terms for a difficult situation
   • noun - soft semiliquid food
   • noun - a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
   • noun - a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
   • noun - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
   • verb - eat in a mess hall
   • verb - make a mess of or create disorder in
2. • A disorderly or dirty accumulation, heap, or jumble: left a mess in the yard.
   • A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty condition: The kitchen was in a mess.
   • A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition; a muddle: With divorce and bankruptcy proceedings pending, his personal life was in a mess.
   • One that is in such a condition: clothes that were a mess after painting the ceiling; made a mess of their marriage.
   • An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish: cooked up a mess of fish.
   • A serving of soft, semiliquid food: a mess of porridge.
   • A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.
   • Food or a meal served to such a group: took mess with the enlistees.
   • A mess hall.
   • To make disorderly or soiled; clutter or foul: a puppy that still messes the floor.
   • To botch; bungle.
   • To cause or make a mess.
   • To use or handle something carelessly; fiddle: messed with the blender until he broke it.
   • To intrude; interfere: messing in the neighbors’ affairs.
   • To take a meal in a military mess.
   • To pass time in aimless puttering.
   • To associate casually or playfully: liked to mess around with pals on days off.
   • To make a mistake, especially from nervousness or confusion: messed up and dropped the ball.
   • To beat up; manhandle: got messed up in a brawl.
3. • v - to make dirty or untidy

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