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A thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganized, or dirty state; hence a bad situation. +

(colloquial) A large quantity or number.

(euphemistic) Excrement.

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

To make untidy or dirty.

To make soiled by defecating.

To make soiled by ejaculating.

To throw into disorder or to ruin.

To interfere.

(obsolete) Mass; a church service.

(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.

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

A building or room in which mess is eaten.

(India) A type of restaurant characterized by homely-style cooking and food.

A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).

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

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.