Mire
[maɪə] or ['maɪɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
(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'.
(verb.) soil with mud, muck, or mire; 'The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden'.
(verb.) cause to get stuck as if in a mire; 'The mud mired our cart'.
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Definition
(n.) An ant.
(n.) Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
(v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
(v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter.
(v. i.) To stick in mire.
Editor: Robert
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mud, ooze, slime.
v. n. Sink in mud.
Checker: Truman
Definition
n. deep mud.—v.t. to plunge and fix in mire: to soil with mud.—v.i. to sink in mud.—n. Mī′riness.—adj. Mī′ry consisting of mire: covered with mire.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of going through mire, indicates that your dearest wishes and plans will receive a temporary check by the intervention of unusual changes in your surroundings.
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Examples
- In this state they traversed without change, except of horses and pace, all the mire-deep leagues that lay between them and the capital. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- No, it was all trodden into mire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am determined that after I have climbed up out of the mire, you shall not pull me down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I mustn't see my gentleman a footing it in the mire of the streets; there mustn't be no mud on his boots. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Yet it was not a common passage through common rain, and mire, and noise, to Clennam, having this little, slender, careful creature on his arm. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All persons of refinement have been scared away from me since I sank into the mire of marriage. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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