mired

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.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

mired - entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion" involved encumbered - loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; "a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"- A.J.Liebling; "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"; "an encumbered estate"

Translations

mired

adj (esp liter

(= dirtied) mired in mud (vehicle) → im Schlamm versunken; road → schlammbedeckt

: = involved) mired in debt → tief verschuldet; mired in scandal → von Skandalen umwittert or verfolgt