'Mire' definitions:
Definition of 'mire'
From: WordNet
noun
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
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]
Synonyms of 'mire'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adhere,
- baygall,
- befoul,
- begrime,
- bemire,
- bemud,
- besmirch,
- besmoke,
- blacken,
- bog,
- bog down,
- bottom,
- bottomland,
- bottoms,
- buffalo wallow,
- cesspool,
- clay,
- cleave,
- cling,
- cloaca,
- cloaca maxima,
- cohere,
- decelerate,
- defile,
- detain,
- dirt,
- dirty,
- dirty up,
- drain,
- dump,
- dust,
- embroil,
- enmesh,
- ensnare,
- entangle,
- entrap,
- everglade,
- fen,
- fenland,
- garbage dump,
- glade,
- glop,
- grime,
- gumbo,
- gunk,
- hog wallow,
- holm,
- implicate,
- involve,
- marais,
- marish,
- marsh,
- marshland,
- meadow,
- mere,
- moor,
- moorland,
- morass,
- moss,
- muck,
- muck up,
- mud,
- mud flat,
- muddy,
- ooze,
- peat bog,
- quag,
- quagmire,
- quicksand,
- retard,
- salt marsh,
- scum,
- septic tank,
- set back,
- sewer,
- sink,
- sink in,
- slab,
- slacken,
- slime,
- slip,
- slob,
- slob land,
- slop,
- slosh,
- slough,
- slow down,
- sludge,
- slush,
- smear,
- smoke,
- smudge,
- snare,
- soil,
- soot,
- sough,
- splosh,
- squash,
- stick,
- stodge,
- sully,
- sump,
- swale,
- swamp,
- swampland,
- swill,
- taiga,
- tangle,
- tarnish,
- trap,
- wallow,
- wash