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(disorder) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding. +

(colloquial) A large quantity or number.

(euphemistic) Excrement.

(figuratively) A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.

(transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty.

To make soiled by defecating.

To make soiled by ejaculating.

(transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin.

To interfere.

(mass, church service) (obsolete) Mass; a church service.

(food) (archaic) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.

(group of people who eat together) (collective) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.

(building or room in which meals are eaten) A building or room in which mess is eaten.

A set of four {{qualifier|from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner}}.

(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

(collective) A group of iguanas. +

(cooking) A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.

To take meals with a mess.

To belong to a mess.

To eat (with others).

To supply with a mess.