mire

[ mahyuhr ]

/ maɪər /

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noun

a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.

ground of this kind, as wet, slimy soil of some depth or deep mud.

verb (used with object), mired, mir·ing.

to plunge and fix in mire; cause to stick fast in mire.

to involve; entangle.

to soil with mire; bespatter with mire.

verb (used without object), mired, mir·ing.

to sink and stick in mire or mud.

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Origin of mire

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

OTHER WORDS FROM mire

mired, adjective

Words nearby mire

Miranda decision, Mirandize, MIRAS, Mira variable, mirchi, mire, mired, Mirena, mirepoix, Miriam, Mirim

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How to use mire in a sentence

That most recent racial reckoning has been just one aspect of the deepening mire of controversy in which Tesla has found itself in recent months.
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Engineers on both sides of the border prodded sewage control gates with sticks and sent cameras down into the mire searching for a block, but discovered nothing.
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Any legal challenges could have happened as early as possible, so that we wouldn’t go through another cold season in the mire of yet another outbreak.
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Desert warfare was, by definition, mobile warfare, the antithesis of the lethal attrition in the mire of the Western Front.
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But she let us film her journey back from the mire of scandal and the brink of despair for OWN.
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Truly the flag of Britain was trailing in the mire, or these men would not have dared to address him in that fashion.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
"But it was n't a lie," Punch would begin, charging into a laboured explanation that landed him more hopelessly in the mire.
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But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The vault was ankle deep in mire and so crowded were the prisoners that no one could sit without leaning upon another.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car|Thomas D. Murphy
And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

British Dictionary definitions for mire

mire

/ (maɪə) /

noun

a boggy or marshy area

mud, muck, or dirt

verb

to sink or cause to sink in a mire

(tr) to make dirty or muddy

(tr) to involve, esp in difficulties

Derived forms of mire

miriness, nounmiry, adjective

Word Origin for mire

C14: from Old Norse mӯrr; related to moss

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mire

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