verb
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to soil with or as if with mire
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(usually passive) to stick fast in mud or mire
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Origin of bemire
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W. Wordsworth is such a lazy fellow, that I bemire myself by making promises for him: the moment I received your letter, I wrote to him.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by Turnbull, A.
Found under Washington's feet were three undignified objects: a whiskey bottle cap, a punctured balloon, and a bemired note to "Dear Harry."
From Time Magazine Archive
No one would reveal then or last week precisely what went on, but it was admitted that the President said something must be done to haul the bemired automobile industry out of the slump.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only my damp and bemired apparel; in which I had slept on the ground and fallen in the marsh.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
At length Porcallo extricated himself, and, drenched with water, and covered with mud, led his equally bemired steed to the land.
From Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
Word came that, as was feared, the wagons were hopelessly bemired three or four miles back, and the men would have to make such shift as they could.
From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by McElroy, John
So I hurried on, splashing and bemiring myself in the byways of the Bourbonnais.
From The Message by Marriage, Ellen
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