Definition of Mire
Noun
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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"
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deep soft mud in water or slush
"they waded through the slop"
slop -
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
quagmire quag morass slack
Verb
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soil with mud, muck, or mire
"The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
muck mud - muck up -
be unable to move further
"The car bogged down in the sand"
- grind to a halt - get stuck - bog down -
cause to get stuck as if in a mire
"The mud mired our cart"
- bog down -
entrap
"Our people should not be mired in the past"
entangle
Word games points for the Mire
- Scrabble® score of the mire (6)
- Word Chums® score of the mire (8)
- Words With Friends® score of the mire (7)
Unscramble mire
16 unscramble word found using the letters mire.
em, emir, er, erm, ire, me, meri, mi, mir, mire, re, rei, rem, riem, rim, rime,