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 [maɪə]

n

1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a boggy or marshy area

2. mud, muck, or dirt

vb

1. to sink or cause to sink in a mire

2. (tr) to make dirty or muddy

3. (tr) to involve, esp in difficulties

[from Old Norse mȳrr; related to moss]

miriness  n

miry  adj

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. mess, trouble, difficulty, emergency, jam (informal), plight, straits, hot water (informal), predicament, tight spot or corner The economy is not out of the mire yet.

2. mud, dirt, muck, ooze, sludge, slime, slob (Irish), gloop (informal), grot (slang) the muck and mire of farmyards

3. swamp, marsh, bog, fen, quagmire, morass, wetland Many of those killed were buried in the mire.

verb

1. soil, dirty, muddy, besmirch, begrime, bespatter The party has been mired by allegations of sleaze.

2. entangle, involve, mix up, catch up, bog down, tangle up, enmesh The minister still remains mired in the controversy of the affair.

in the mire in trouble, entangled, in difficulties, encumbered We're still in the mire, but I think we're good enough to escape.

Translations

mire [maɪəʳ]

A. N → fango m, lodo m

B. VT (US) to get mired in → quedar atascado or preso en

mire [ˈmaɪə^r] n → bourbier m
the mire (= serious difficulties) → le bourbier
They have struggled out of the mire → Ils se sont sortis du bourbier.
to be in the mire → être dans le bourbier
to sink into the mire (= get into difficulties) → s'embourber
to be deep in the mire → être embourbé dans la crise
a company deep in the mire → une compagnie profondément embourbée dans la crise

mire

n → Morast m (also fig), → Schlamm m; the football pitch was an absolute mire → der Fußballplatz war ein einziges Schlammfeld; to drag somebody/something through the mire (fig) → jdn/etw in den Schmutz ziehen

mire [maɪə] n → pantano, melma