mess
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(verb) make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room" |
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Synonyms: mess up |
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Related Words: disarray, disorder |
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(verb) eat in a mess; in the military |
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Related Words: eat |
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(noun) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax |
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Synonyms: mess hall |
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Related Words: dining room, diningroom, officer's mess |
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(noun) a meal eaten by service personnel |
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Related Words: meal, repast |
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(noun) soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge" |
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Related Words: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, victuals |
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(noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" |
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Synonyms: messiness, muss, mussiness |
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Related Words: disorder, disorderliness |
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(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" |
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Synonyms: fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, muddle, pickle |
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Related Words: difficulty |
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(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent: "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "it must have cost plenty" |
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Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew |
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Related Words: deluge, flood, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, torrent |
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