Mire

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  • noun. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.
  • noun. Deep slimy soil or mud.
  • noun. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To cause to sink or become stuck in mire.
  • intransitive verb. To hinder, entrap, or entangle.
  • intransitive verb. To soil with mud or mire.
  • intransitive verb. To sink or become stuck in mire.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An ant. See pismire.
  • To plunge and fix in mire; set or stall in mud; sink in mud or in a morass.
  • To soil or daub with slimy mud or foul matter.
  • To sink in mud; especially, to sink so deep as to be unable to move forward; stick in the mud.
  • noun. Wet, slimy soil of some depth and of yielding consistence; deep mud.
  • noun. Filth.
  • To wonder; admire.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An ant.
  • transitive verb. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud.
  • transitive verb. To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; -- often used in the passive or predicate form.
  • transitive verb. To soil with mud or foul matter.
  • noun. Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
  • noun. the pewit, or laughing gull.
  • noun. the European bittern.
  • intransitive verb. To stick in mire.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An ant.
  • noun. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
  • noun. An undesirable situation, a predicament.
  • verb. To weigh down.
  • verb. Cause to become stuck in mud.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. deep soft mud in water or slush
  • noun. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  • verb. entrap
  • verb. be unable to move further
  • verb. cause to get stuck as if in a mire
  • noun. a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
  • verb. soil with mud, muck, or mire
  • Word Usage
    "The idea that if we create a fairer more forgiving society with a fully supportive social system the disenfranchised will lift themselves oput of the mire is frankly just not true anymore."
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    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    begrime  bemire  bog  clay  colly  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dyer  Gire  Gyr  Meier  Meyer  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    abyss  bog  dung  filth  gravel  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adhere  ant  baygall  befoul  begrime  
    verb-form
    mired  mires  miring