'Mired' definitions:
Definition of 'mired'
From: WordNet
adjective
Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion" [syn: involved, mired]
Definition of 'Mired'
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]