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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]
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| AN Ox, unable to extricate himself from the mire into which he sank, was advised to make use of a Political Pull. At last he came to a part of the road where the wheels sank half-way into the mire, and the more the horses pulled, the deeper sank the wheels. She told him of the penalty of breaking the taboo of the Red One--a week of torture, living, the details of which she yammered out from her face in the mire until he realized that he was yet a tyro in knowledge of the frightfulness the human was capable of wreaking on the human. |
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