mire
to plunge and fix in mire; cause to stick fast in mire.
to involve; entangle.
to soil with mire; bespatter with mire.
to sink and stick in mire or mud.
Origin of mire
1Other words from mire
- mired, adjective
Words Nearby mire
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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.
Tesla Is Used to Controversy. But Its Latest Scandals Could Hurt Its Bottom Line | Alejandro de la Garza | February 16, 2022 | TimeEngineers 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.
Morning Report: How Do We Measure School Quality? There Isn’t a Good Way Yet | Voice of San Diego | February 11, 2022 | Voice of San DiegoAny 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.
Desert warfare was, by definition, mobile warfare, the antithesis of the lethal attrition in the mire of the Western Front.
Lawrence of Arabia Became Popular as the Dashing Antithesis of the War in Europe | Jack Schwartz | December 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut 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.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingBut the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousThe 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. MurphyAnd 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
/ (maɪə) /
a boggy or marshy area
mud, muck, or dirt
to sink or cause to sink in a mire
(tr) to make dirty or muddy
(tr) to involve, esp in difficulties
Origin of mire
1Derived forms of mire
- miriness, noun
- miry, adjective
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