[
  {
    "word": "mess",
    "phonetic": "/m\u025bs/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/m\u025bs/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/mess-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=558957",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; disorder.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "He made a mess of it."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A large quantity or number.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Excrement.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Parked under a tree, my car was soon covered in birds' mess."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Between the pain and the depression, I'm a mess."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "(transitive, often used with \"up\") To make untidy or dirty.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(transitive, often used with \"up\") To throw into disorder or to ruin.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To interfere.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "This doesn't concern you. Don't mess."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(used with \"with\") To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Stop messing with me!"
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mess"
    ]
  },
  {
    "word": "mess",
    "phonetic": "/m\u025bs/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/m\u025bs/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/mess-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=558957",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "Mass; a church service.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "A mess of pottage."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "the wardroom mess"
          },
          {
            "definition": "A building or room in which mess is eaten.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The milk given by a cow at one milking.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "verb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "To take meals with a mess.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To belong to a mess.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "To eat (with others).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I mess with the wardroom officers."
          },
          {
            "definition": "To supply with a mess.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mess"
    ]
  }
]