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messed

messed is the simple past and past participle of mess.

Meaning of mess

Verb (1)

mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)

  1. (often, transitive) To make soiled by defecating.
    • It seems like all you do is cry, eat, and mess your diapers!2000 March 12, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)
  2. (often, transitive) To make soiled by ejaculating.
  3. (often, transitive) To throw into disorder or to ruin.
    • Charles Dickens, quoted in: 1875, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens
      Yet I was not sorry that the creature found the loophole for escape. The officers had taken him illegally without any warrant; and really they messed it all through, quite facetiously.
  4. (intransitive) To interfere.
    • This doesn't concern you. Don't mess.

Verb (2)

mess (third-person singular simple present messes, present participle messing, simple past and past participle messed)

  1. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
  2. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.

See all 22 meanings of mess

Phrases with messed

Questions about messed

What is messed the simple past and past participle of?
Messed is the simple past and past participle of mess.

Words near messed in the dictionary

  1. messboy
  2. messboys
  3. messdeck
  4. messdecks
  5. Messecar
  6. messed
  7. messed about
  8. messed around
  9. messed up
  10. messed with
  11. messed-up

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