6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Mire \Mire\ (m[imac]r), noun [AS. m[=i]re, m[=y]re; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. my'rmhx.] An ant. [Obs.] See {Pismire}. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Mire \Mire\, noun [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. m?rr swamp, Sw. myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.] Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. --Chaucer. He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. --Spenser. {Mire crow} (Zo["o]l.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] {Mire drum}, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Mire \Mire\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mired} (m[imac]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Miring}.] 1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon. 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. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. --Shak. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Mire \Mire\, verb (used without an object) To stick in mire. --Shak. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: mire noun: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: {quagmire}, {quag}, {morass}] verb 1: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: {entangle}] 2: cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" [syn: {bog down}] 3: be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" [syn: {grind to a halt}, {get stuck}, {bog down}] 4: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" [syn: {muck}, {mud}, {muck up}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 112 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wash

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