mire

mire  (mr)

n.

1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.

2. Deep slimy soil or mud.

3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty.

v. mired, mir·ing, mires

v.tr.

1.

a. To cause to sink or become stuck in or as if in mire.

b. To hinder, entrap, or entangle as if in mire.

2. To soil with mud or mire.

v.intr.

To sink or become stuck in mire.

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[Middle English, from Old Norse mrr, bog.]

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mire

Noun

1. a boggy or marshy area

2. mud, muck, or dirt

3. an unpleasant or difficult situation that is difficult to get out of: the country sank deeper into the economic mire

Verb

[miring, mired]

to sink or be stuck in a mire: the company has been mired in financial scandal [Old Norse mȳrr]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	mire - a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot morass, quag, quagmire, slack bog, peat bog - wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
	2.	mire - deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop" slop mud, clay - water soaked soil; soft wet earth
	3.	mire - a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty" difficulty - a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties"
Verb	1.	mire - entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" entangle involve - engage as a participant; "Don't involve me in your family affairs!"
	2.	mire - cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" bog down get stuck, grind to a halt, mire, bog down - be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand"
	3.	mire - be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" get stuck, grind to a halt, bog down stand still - remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile; "Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by" bog down, mire - cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart"
	4.	mire - soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" mud, muck up, muck begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil - make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

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mire

noun 1. mud, dirt, muck, ooze, sludge, slime, slob Irish gloop (informal) grot (slang)

noun 2. swamp, marsh, bog, fen, quagmire, morass, wetland, pakihi N.Z. muskeg Canad.

verb 3. soil, dirty, muddy, besmirch, begrime, bespatter

verb 4. entangle, involve, mix up, catch up, bog down, tangle up, enmesh

Translations

mire [maɪəʳ] n → fango, lodo

mire [ˈmaɪəʳ] n → bourbe f, boue f

mire [ˈmaɪəʳ] n → Morast m

mire [ˈmaɪəʳ] n → pantano, melma