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See definition of mire on Dictionary.com
  • nounmuck, morass
  • verbdelay, catch up in

synonyms for mire

  • quagmire
  • bog
  • dirt
  • fen
  • glop
  • goo
  • gunk
  • marsh
  • moss
  • mud
  • ooze
  • quicksand
  • slime
  • swamp
See also synonyms for: mired
  • bog down
  • embroil
  • enmesh
  • ensnare
  • entangle
  • flounder
  • implicate
  • involve
  • stick
  • tangle
  • trap
  • cling
  • decelerate
  • detain
  • dirty
  • entrap
  • retard
  • sink
  • snare
  • soil
  • hang up
  • set back
  • slow down
  • slow up
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How to use mire in a sentence

Any legal challenges could have happened as early as possible, so that we wouldn’t go through another cold season in the mire of yet another outbreak.
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Truly the flag of Britain was trailing in the mire, or these men would not have dared to address him in that fashion.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
"But it was n't a lie," Punch would begin, charging into a laboured explanation that landed him more hopelessly in the mire.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLING
But the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
The vault was ankle deep in mire and so crowded were the prisoners that no one could sit without leaning upon another.
BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARTHOMAS D. MURPHY
And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
His thoughts dwell on wagons stogged in the mire and big carthorses hauling at the collar at his voice and under his lash.
CHILD LIFE IN TOWN AND COUNTRYANATOLE FRANCE
On, ever on, in the darkness and the mire, through clumps of whin and stray bushes of wild briar.
THE UNDERWORLDJAMES C. WELSH
The rest toiled on through swamps and mire, half-starved and benumbed with cold.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNT
The creek had shrunk to a thread of water, but Festing, who had been wading about its bed, was wet and splashed with mire.
THE GIRL FROM KELLER'SHAROLD BINDLOSS
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WORDS RELATED TO MIRE

  • begrime
  • dirty
  • grime
  • mire
  • muck
  • slush
  • soil
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