messed with
Interfered with carelessly
To mess with something is to tamper or interfere with it: Someone messed with the thermostat.
To mess with someone is to tease, provoke, or deceive them: Are you messing with me?
The phrase often appears in warnings against confrontation: Don't mess with Texas, You messed with the wrong person.
Getting messed with implies being bothered, manipulated, or treated badly.
- tinkeredAdjusted without expertise
- disturbedEmotionally or mentally unsettled
- threw offConfused or unbalanced
- sabotagedDeliberately damaged or destroyed
- antagonizedActively turned against
pranked · challenged · meddled · annoyed · hacked · manipulated · altered · joked · corrupted · teased · upset · provoked · confronted · resisted · crossed paths · disrupted · fooled · goaded
messed withleft alone
Not interfered with
let be · ignored · avoided · disregarded · neglected
messed withleft alone
Not interfered with
respected · protected · defended · looked after · cared for
messed withorganized
Systematically arranged
tidied up · arranged · put in order · sorted out · maintained
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