Definition of "messing" []

• Present participle of mess. (verb)

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• "I ate straight from the cutting board but if you are serving this to someone slide it off onto a nice plate and handout a tissue, putting a piece of this sandwich in your mouth without messing is a practiced art."
• "The concern is Congress doesn't want to admit it's own responsibility in messing up ITAR."
• "But, of course, the danger in messing with anything this fundamental is the possibility of royally screwing things up."