Meaning

8 senses
  1. To make untidy or dirty.

    (often, transitive)To make soiled by defecating.

    make a mess of or create disorder in

  2. (often, transitive)To make soiled by ejaculating.

  3. (often, transitive)To throw into disorder or to ruin.

  4. (intransitive)To interfere.

    This doesn't concern you. Don't mess.

  5. (intransitive)To take meals with a mess.

    eat in a mess hall

  6. (intransitive)To belong to a mess.

  7. (intransitive)To eat (with others).

    I mess with the wardroom officers.

  8. (transitive)To supply with a mess.

Examples

1184 sentences
  1. Look at the mess we have here.

    Подивись на весь цей безлад. — deniko

  2. It'll take forever to clean up this mess.

    Розібратися в цьому безладі займе цілу вічність. — deniko

    deEs wird ewig dauern, dieses Chaos zu bereinigen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. I think it's time for me to walk away from this mess.

    Я вважаю, що прийшов час мені піти від цього безладу. — zaytsev126

    ruЯ думаю, что пришло время мне уйти от этого беспорядка. — zaytsev126

  4. Tom is a mess.

    Тому — суцільна руїна. — deniko

  5. I'm sorry for the mess.

    Перепрошую за безлад. — deniko

    ruИзвиняюсь за беспорядок. — odexed

Origin

Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymol

Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare also Old English mes (“dung, excrement”).

From Middle English mes, partly from Old English mēse, mēose (“table”), a vernacular loan from Latin/Late Latin mē(n)sa (“table; meal”); and partly from Old French mes, Late Latin missum, from mittō (“to put, place (e.g. on the table)”). See mission, and compare Mass (“religious service”).

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Forms

messes, messing, messed, messed
Base formmess · to mess
3rd person singularmesses
Present participlemessing
Past simplemessed
Past participlemessed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymess
he, she, itmesses

Past simpleLesson

all personsmessed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave messed
he, she, ithas messed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mess

Phrasal verbs

5 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • make a mess of or create disorder in:mess up

Word family

10 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • up this mess
  • is a mess
  • made a mess
  • up the mess
  • a mess of
  • into this mess
  • clean this mess
  • messed up again
  • a real mess
  • of this mess
  • want to mess
  • for this mess

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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