messing

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.

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