Thesaurus: mire

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1. n. An ant.
2. n. Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
3. v. t. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
4. v. t. To soil with mud or foul matter.
5. v. i. To stick in mire.
6. n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
7. n. deep soft mud in water or slush
8. n. a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
9. v. cause to get stuck as if in a mire
10. v. be unable to move further
11. v. soil with mud, muck, or mire
12. An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire. 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.] 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. To stick in mire. Shak.