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miry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective miry has 1 sense
- miry(s = adj.all) boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" Derived form noun mire1
CIDE DICTIONARY
miry, a. [From 2d Mire.].
Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
miry
boggish, boggy, dingy, dirty, dusty, fenny, grimy, grubby, grungy, marish, marshy, messy, mirish, moorish, moory, mucky, muddy, oozy, paludal, paludous, plashy, poachy, quaggy, quagmiry, scruffy, slabby, slobby, sloppy, sloshy, sloughy, slovenly, sludgy, slushy, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, soft, sooty, splashy, sposhy, spouty, squashy, squelchy, squishy, swampish, swampy, turbid, uliginous, untidy
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