mess

noun

1
a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
2
a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
3
soft semiliquid food
a mess of porridge
4
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
a batch of letters
a deal of trouble
5
informal terms for a difficult situation
he got into a terrible fix
he made a muddle of his marriage
6
a state of confusion and disorderliness
the house was a mess
she smoothed the mussiness of the bed

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