to mire

Examples

• All

• After trying to fix the car, he realized he had mired himself in a frustrating situation.

• The truck got mired in the muddy field after the heavy rain.

• And yet the fly was there, mired in the water, sending off its million tiny ripples of panic.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Already mired in mud.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Yet March's poetry continues to mire commentators in the harsh complexity that his difficulty inspires.

  Academic text (1992)

• A clan of hyenas, above, feeds on the carcass of a wildebeest that died after becoming mired in the mud of a drying water hole.

  Academic text (1998)

• Deprived of their fair share of creation's bounty and mired in filth and squalor, the poor have a right to savor and create beauty.

  Academic text (2010)

• If it wasn't for me, you would've spent the weekend mired in whatever mind-numbing, toilet-torment, overworked, underpaid management trainees mire in.

  Shuttle (2008)

• Likewise, residents on both sides of the border are fond of telling yarns such as the one about the pioneer family that one day was racing a chinook back home; while their team of horses struggled through three feet of snow, their sleigh's front runners were mired in slush and the back end dragged in dust.

  Academic text (1999)

• As the storm intensified, we watched our boots get mired in the wet soil.

Synonyms

S

to soil

vsto mire

59 4.5

To make something dirty with mud or dirt

is narrower, stressing wet sticky or muddy covering rather than simple dirt

S

to slime

vsto mire

13 6.5

To cover something with a thick slippery substance

involves coating with wet sticky earth or dirt rather than a slippery film

M

to muddy

vsto mire

5 1.9

Make something dirty with mud or sediment

focuses more on covering with wet sticky substances rather than just wetness

M

to muck

vsto mire

3 3.5

To make something dirty with mud

emphasizes being covered with wet sticky dirt rather than only messiness

M

to mud

vsto mire

1 5.1

To cover a surface with soft wet earth to make it smooth

is about covering with thick wet earth or other sticky dirty matter

M

to muddy up

vsto mire

1 3.5

To make something dirty with wet dirt, for example shoes or floors

is similar but also covers with other sticky dirty substances

B

to begrime

vsto mire

1 9.4

To cover something with dark dirt so it becomes dirty

is about being covered with wet sticky substances rather than only grime

M

to muck up

vsto mire

• Informal

6.7

To make something dirty with mud or dirt

is more about being covered by mud, dirt, or sticky substances specifically

M

to moil

vsto mire

• Archaic

9.9

To make something wet or dirty

is more specific about being covered with sticky mud or similar substances

Antonyms

C

to clean

∞ 1.0

To remove dirt and stains

D

dry

791 1.0

Not wet or without any liquid

Idioms

W

to wallow in the mire

1 9.9

To stay sad and think about problems instead of trying to fix them

M

mire of one's own making

8.8

A difficult situation you cause by your own choices or actions

Compounds

F

financial mire

• Informal

7.7

A situation of serious money trouble that is hard to get out of

How Muddy

to mire

1 7.9

to dirty

14 1.0

to soil

59 4.5

Surface Forms

Etymology