MIRE

mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack

(noun) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

mire

(noun) a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; “the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president”; “caught in the mire of poverty”

slop, mire

(noun) deep soft mud in water or slush; “they waded through the slop”

mire, muck, mud, muck up

(verb) soil with mud, muck, or mire; “The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden”

mire, bog down

(verb) cause to get stuck as if in a mire; “The mud mired our cart”

entangle, mire

(verb) entrap; “Our people should not be mired in the past”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

mire (countable and uncountable, plural mires)

Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.

• When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire. (Charles Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare, Hatier, coll. « Les Classiques pour tous » n° 223, p. 51)

Synonyms: peatland, quag

Hypernym: wetland

Hyponyms: bog, fen

An undesirable situation, a predicament.

Verb

mire (third-person singular simple present mires, present participle miring, simple past and past participle mired)

(transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.

Synonyms: bemire, enmire

(intransitive) To sink into mud.

(transitive, figurative) To weigh down.

(intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.

Synonym: bemire

Etymology 2

Noun

mire (plural mires)

(obsolete) An ant.

Anagrams

• IMer, Meir, Meri, emir, meri, reim, riem, rime

Proper noun

Mire (plural Mires)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mire is the 10894^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2924 individuals. Mire is most common among White (81.81%) and Black/African American (13.37%) individuals.

Anagrams

• IMer, Meir, Meri, emir, meri, reim, riem, rime

Source: Wiktionary

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Mire, n. Etym: [AS. mire, m; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr.

Definition: An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire.

Mire, n. Etym: [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. m swamp, Sw. myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.]

Definition: Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. Chaucer. He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. Spenser. Mire crow (Zoöl.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] -- Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]

Mire, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mired; p. pr. & vb. n. Miring.]

1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

2. To soil with mud or foul matter. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. Shak.

Mire, v. i.

Definition: To stick in mire. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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