'Mire' definitions:

Definition of 'mire'

(from WordNet)
noun
A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack]
noun
Deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop" [syn: slop, mire]
noun
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"
verb
Entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: entangle, mire]
verb
Cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" [syn: mire, bog down]
verb
Be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" [syn: grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire]
verb
Soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" [syn: mire, muck, mud, muck up]

Definition of 'Mire'

From: GCIDE
  • Mire \Mire\, n. [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. m?rr swamp, Sw. myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.] Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • Mire crow (Zool.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.]
  • Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mire'

From: GCIDE
  • Mire \Mire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mired (m[imac]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Miring.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence: To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; -- often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned. [PJC]
  • 3. To soil with mud or foul matter. [1913 Webster]
  • Smirched thus and mired with infamy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Mire'

From: GCIDE
  • Mire \Mire\, v. i. To stick in mire. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Mirific

Definition of 'Mire'

From: GCIDE
  • Mire \Mire\ (m[imac]r), n. [AS. m[imac]re, m[=y]re; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. my`rmhx.] An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire. [1913 Webster]

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