Thesaurus / mire
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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.
KYRIE IRVING IS NOT THE REAL VILLAIN HERECORBIN SMITHDECEMBER 20, 2021THE DAILY BEASTTruly 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 KIPLINGBut the wicked are like the raging sea, which cannot rest, and the waves thereof cast up dirt and mire.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSThe 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. MURPHYAnd 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 VERSIONVARIOUSHis 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 FRANCEOn, ever on, in the darkness and the mire, through clumps of whin and stray bushes of wild briar.
THE UNDERWORLDJAMES C. WELSHThe rest toiled on through swamps and mire, half-starved and benumbed with cold.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTThe 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 BINDLOSSWORDS RELATED TO MIRE
- arrest
- back off
- baffle
- balk
- bog
- bog down
- brake
- bring to screeching halt
- check
- choke
- choke off
- clog
- close off
- crimp
- dawdle
- decelerate
- decrease
- defer
- delay
- detain
- down
- encumber
- falter
- fetter
- flag
- hamper
- handicap
- hang up
- hesitate
- hold back
- hold up
- impede
- lessen
- let up
- loaf
- loiter
- mire
- poke
- postpone
- reduce
- set back
- shut down
- shut off
- slacken
- slow down
- slow up
- stall
- take down
- abate
- anchor it
- back-water
- bog down
- brake
- check
- choke
- curb
- curtail
- cut back
- cut down
- decelerate
- decrease
- detain
- diminish
- ease off
- ease up
- embog
- handicap
- hinder
- hit the brakes
- hold back
- hold up
- impede
- keep waiting
- lag
- lessen
- let down flaps
- loiter
- lose speed
- lose steam
- mire
- moderate
- postpone
- procrastinate
- qualify
- quiet
- reduce
- reduce speed
- reef
- regulate
- rein in
- relax
- retard
- set back
- slacken
- stall
- stunt
- temper
- wind down
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