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Mire
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Mire has 3 senses
- mire(n = noun.object) morass, quag, quagmire, slack - a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot; Array is a kind of bog, peat bog
- mire(n = noun.substance) slop - deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop" is a kind of clay, mud
- mire(n = noun.state) Array - 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" is a kind of difficulty
Derived forms verb mire4, verb mire3, verb mire2, adjective miry1
Verb Mire has 4 senses
- mire(v = verb.stative) entangle - entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" is one way to involve
- mire(v = verb.motion) bog down - cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" Derived form noun mire1
- mire(v = verb.motion) bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt - be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" is one way to stand still
- mire(v = verb.contact) muck, muck up, mud - soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" is one way to begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil
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Something ----s something
Derived form noun mire1
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Derived form noun mire1
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Something ----s somebody
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CIDE DICTIONARY
Mire, n. [AS. mīre, m; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. my`rmhx.].
An ant. [1913 Webster]
Mire, n. [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. mrr 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." [1913 Webster]
Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire." [1913 Webster]
Mire, v. t.
- To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon. [1913 Webster]
- 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]
- To soil with mud or foul matter. [1913 Webster]"Smirched thus and mired with infamy." [1913 Webster]
Mire, v. i.
To stick in mire. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Mire, n. & v.
--n.
1 a stretch of swampy or boggy ground.
2 mud, dirt.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. plunge or sink in a mire.
2 tr. involve in difficulties.
--n.
1 a stretch of swampy or boggy ground.
2 mud, dirt.
--v.
1 tr. & intr. plunge or sink in a mire.
2 tr. involve in difficulties.
Idiom
in the mire in difficulties.
Etymology
ME f. ON m|rr f. Gmc, rel. to MOSS
THESAURUS
Mire
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, washROGET THESAURUS
Mire
Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.
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