mire

Nouns

• (n) a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot morass, quag, quagmire, slack,
• (n) deep soft mud in water or slush
  • they waded through the slop
  slop,
• (n) 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

Verbs

• (v) entrap
  • Our people should not be mired in the past
  entangle,
• (v) cause to get stuck as if in a mire
  • The mud mired our cart
  bog down,
• (v) be unable to move further
  • The car bogged down in the sand
  get stuck, grind to a halt, bog down,
• (v) soil with mud, muck, or mire
  • The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
  mud, muck up, muck,

Synonyms

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