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mire

[ mahyuhr ]

noun

  1. a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
  2. ground of this kind, as wet, slimy soil of some depth or deep mud.


verb (used with object)

, mired, mir·ing.
  1. to plunge and fix in mire; cause to stick fast in mire.
  2. to involve; entangle.
  3. to soil with mire; bespatter with mire.

verb (used without object)

, mired, mir·ing.
  1. to sink and stick in mire or mud.

mire

/ maɪə /

noun

  1. a boggy or marshy area
  2. mud, muck, or dirt


verb

  1. to sink or cause to sink in a mire
  2. tr to make dirty or muddy
  3. tr to involve, esp in difficulties

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Derived Forms

  • ˈmiriness, noun
  • ˈmiry, adjective

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Other Words From

  • mired adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mire1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, from Old Norse mȳrr “bog”; cognate with Old English mēos moss

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Word History and Origins

Origin of mire1

C14: from Old Norse mӯrr; related to moss

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Example Sentences

Desert warfare was, by definition, mobile warfare, the antithesis of the lethal attrition in the mire of the Western Front.

But she let us film her journey back from the mire of scandal and the brink of despair for OWN.

Truly the flag of Britain was trailing in the mire, or these men would not have dared to address him in that fashion.

"But it was n't a lie," Punch would begin, charging into a laboured explanation that landed him more hopelessly in the mire.

But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.

The vault was ankle deep in mire and so crowded were the prisoners that no one could sit without leaning upon another.

And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

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