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Mire

noun

A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. Synonyms: morass, quag, quagmire, slack.

Deep soft mud in water or slush. Synonym: slop.

A difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from. "Caught in the mire of poverty"

verb

(past & past part. mired; pres. part. miring)

Entrap. Synonym: entangle.

Cause to get stuck as if in a mire. Synonym: bog down.

Be unable to move further. Synonyms: bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt.

Soil with mud, muck, or mire. Synonyms: muck, muck up, mud.

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"Mire" Quotes from Famous Books

... night of frosty wreck, Enrobed in morning's mounted fire, When lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire." ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... great misfortune," said he, "that we have here to do with that portion of my countrymen which is perhaps most deeply sunk in the mire of ancient custom. We have begun by unhesitatingly leading in the front ourselves whenever any disagreeable consequences are to be borne by reason of our infringement of the old customs. Take, for example, the problem of the peculiar position of ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

... in almost to his arm-pits. The horse braced its feet and pulled. Beulah, astride the saddle, urged it to the task again and again. At first by imperceptible gains, then inch by inch, the man was dragged from the mire that fought with a thousand clinging tentacles for ...

— The Sheriff's Son • William MacLeod Raine

... the public mind! He maligned you. The burdens that I have carried for all the years, the horrors that I've wrestled with, the secret shames that I've hidden, he's exposed them all in the open marketplace. And he dragged you into my mire! Diana, each man must be broken in a different way. Some are broken by money, some by physical fear, some ...

— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow

... A.D. the triumph of the oriental element in Christendom had well-nigh banished learning and education from the domain of the Church, giving place to a gloomy, unquestioning faith which sank ever deeper and deeper in the mire of superstition. What enlightenment survived had found a home beyond the limits of the Roman Empire,—in Ireland, in the extreme West; in Syria, in the far East." (Davidson, Thomas, History ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

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