mire

Plural: mires

Noun

• a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
• deep soft mud in water or slush
• 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"
• Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
• Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
• A peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.
• An undesirable situation; a predicament.
• An ant.

Verb

Verb Forms: mired, miring, mires

• To cause to stick in swampy ground; to entangle or impede.
• entrap
  • "Our people should not be mired in the past"
• cause to get stuck as if in a mire
  • "The mud mired our cart"
• be unable to move further
• soil with mud, muck, or mire
• To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
• To sink into mud.
• To weigh down.
• To soil with mud or foul matter.

Examples

• His opponent tried to MIRE his progress by playing blocking words.
• to mire a horse or wagon

Synonyms

bog down, entangle, get stuck, grind to a halt, morass, muck, muck up, mud, quag, quagmire, slack, slop, bemire, enmire, peatland

Related Words

antmire, pismire

Anagrams of mire