Definition of Mire

Noun

• 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"
  
• 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

• 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

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