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mire - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'mire' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Mire [ n.]
- An ant.
- Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
2 . Mire [ v. i.]
- To stick in mire.
3 . Mire [ v. t.]
- To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
- To soil with mud or foul matter.

Meaning of 'mire' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . mire [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
Example in sentence:
  • caught in the mire of poverty;
  • the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president
Meaning (2):
- deep soft mud in water or slush
Example in sentence:
  • they waded through the slop
3 . mire [ v]
Meaning (3):
- entrap
Example in sentence:
  • Our people should not be mired in the past
Meaning (4):
- be unable to move further
Example in sentence:
  • The car bogged down in the sand
Meaning (5):
- soil with mud, muck, or mire
Example in sentence:
  • The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
Meaning (6):
- cause to get stuck as if in a mire
Example in sentence:
  • The mud mired our cart

Nearby Words:

mir mira mirabilaries mirabilary mirabilis mirabilite mirable miracle miraculize miraculous

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