to mess
975
4.2
- verb
- /mɛs/
- Informal
- If one element is messed up, a child's learning could be put on hold.
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- Imagine what a how that would mess with your child's head.
- Those English cooks, they love to mess with fish.
- Here's the thing, I don't mess with that kind of stuff.
- Few years ago I become very engaged in trying to mess with American dishes.
- Once you once they're created, they mess with the past.
- And those can, you know, if messed with, can go and explode later.
- What can we do to make sure it doesn't mess with our sex lives?
- So they took my truck, they took my money, but they didn't mess with my stock account.
Examples
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But the only question... is, how will we mess this all up?
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But I don't want to mess up your process.
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This is looking more and more like we messed this up.
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Are you messing with me?
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Don't mess up my wedding, man.
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So as it turns out, this person didn't mess with the recipe at all.
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So I've messed with this graph quite a bit.
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Stop messing with that.
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If you continue to mess with the settings, it could lead to unexpected errors.
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He didn't mean to mess with her emotions when he said that.
Synonyms
449
3.5
To get involved in a situation and make things not work as they should
349
9.9
To mess with someone's things or plans on purpose to cause trouble
244
4.4
To interrupt normal activity and cause disorder
83
2.7
To make people confused and things messy
60
9.9
To do something badly and ruin how it turns out
38
2.1
Move something and make it untidy or broken
35
4.9
Deal with something badly so it causes problems or damage
18
6.4
To make a mistake that ruins something because you are careless
14
7.6
To ruin something by making mistakes or doing it badly
11
9.9
To cause a lot of damage and chaos to a place or thing
7
7.9
To make hair, clothes, or a surface messy
6
8.1
To make a mess of a plan or task by doing it badly
5
3.0
To make something untidy, dirty, or not in the right place
4
6.7
Do a job badly and make a mess of it
4
2.1
Make a place messy so things are not in order
2
7.9
To do something badly and ruin how it turns out
2
5.4
To make a mistake especially by forgetting words on stage
1
9.9
To ruin something by doing it badly
1
7.8
Make things tangled or blocked so progress slows
1
9.9
To do something so badly that it fails
1
9.9
To cause problems and confusion in a plan or system
To ruin something completely by making serious mistakes
Antonyms
Idioms
To give up something very important for a small, quick gain
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
How Damaging
∞
1.0
323
1.4
- Informal
975
4.2
139
4.9
449
3.5
2
3.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
To mess with something, meaning to interfere and cause damage, comes from the idea of making a 'mess' of it by handling it badly, which explains the sense of causing problems.