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MUSS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of confusion and disorderliness
Example:
she smoothed the mussiness of the bed
Synonyms:
mess; messiness; muss; mussiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("muss" is a kind of...):
disorder; disorderliness (a condition in which things are not in their expected places)
Derivation:
muss (make messy or untidy)
mussy (dirty and disorderly)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they muss ... he / she / it musses
Past simple: mussed
Past participle: mussed
-ing form: mussing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make messy or untidy
Example:
the child mussed up my hair
Synonyms:
muss; tussle
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "muss" is one way to...):
disarrange (destroy the arrangement or order of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
muss (a state of confusion and disorderliness)
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