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1. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
   - quagmire, quag, morass, slack
    
2. Deep soft mud in water or slush
   "they waded through the mire"
   - slop
    
3. 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"

1. Entrap
   "Our people should not be mired in the past"
   - entangle
    
2. Cause to get stuck as if in a mire
   "The mud mired our cart"
   - bog down
    
3. Be unable to move further
   "The car mired in the sand"
   - grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down
    
4. Soil with mud, muck, or mire
   "The child mired up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
   - muck, mud, muck up

Derived forms: mires, mired, miring

See also: miry

Type of: begrime, bemire [archaic], bog, clay, colly [archaic], difficulty, dirty, grime, involve, mud, peat bog, soil, stand still

Encyclopedia: Mire