Crossword-Solution: MESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mess | n. | Mass; church service. |
| Mess | n. | A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time. |
| Mess | n. | A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess. |
| Mess | n. | A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. |
| Mess | n. | The milk given by a cow at one milking. |
| Mess | n. | A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. |
| Mess | v. i. | To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers. |
| Mess | v. t. | To supply with a mess. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MESS | anagram | SEMS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MESS (5)
Also `mess-loss', `messy-dos', `mess-dog', `mess-dross', `mush-dos', and various combinations thereof.
Well, some men like to mess about the kitchen.” He paused, but Ray was intent on getting into his clothes as quickly as possible.
Occasionally she would draw near the candle and read from a yellow paper the recipe of the mess she was concocting.
She says, “Take your hands away, Huckleberry; what a mess you are always making!” The widow put in a good word for me, but that warn’t going to keep off the bad luck, I knowed that well enough.
And you are welcome, friends, to my mess of dandelions, if there were twice as many!” A plain, but handsome, dark-green barouche had now drawn up in front of the ruinous portal of the old mansion-house.
Quotes with MESS (3)
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too.…
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 1,069 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).