mire n : a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: quagmire, quag, morass] v
1. entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: entangle]
2. cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" [syn: bog down]
3. be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" [syn: grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down]
4. soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" [syn: muck, mud, muck up}]

Mire \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 \Mire\, v. i. To stick in mire. --Shak.

Mire \Mire\, n. [AS. m[=i]re, m?re; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. ?.] An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire.

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