MESS

(noun) a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
synonyms : mess hall
(noun) a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
(noun) soft semiliquid food
"a mess of porridge"
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
"a batch of letters", "a deal of trouble", "a lot of money", "he made a mint on the stock market", "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos", "it must have cost plenty", "a slew of journalists", "a wad of money"
synonyms : batch , deal , flock , good deal , great deal , hatful , heap , lot , mass , mickle , mint , mountain , muckle , passel , peck , pile , plenty , pot , quite a little , raft , sight , slew , spate , stack , tidy sum , wad
A mass of people were gathered in the hall. -added by naila_inlas
(noun) informal terms for a difficult situation
"he got into a terrible fix", "he made a muddle of his marriage"
synonyms : fix , hole , jam , kettle of fish , muddle , pickle
(noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness
"the house was a mess", "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
synonyms : messiness , muss , mussiness
(verb) make a mess of or create disorder in
"He messed up his room"
synonyms : mess up
(verb) eat in a mess hall

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