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mire
(mīr)n.
1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.
2. Deep slimy soil or mud.
3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty.
v. mired, mir·ing, mires
v.tr.
1.
a. To cause to sink or become stuck in mire.
b. To hinder, entrap, or entangle.
2. To soil with mud or mire.
v.intr.
To sink or become stuck in mire.
[Middle English, from Old Norse mȳrr, bog.]
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mired
(ˈmaɪəd)adj
1. made muddy or dirty
2. involved, esp in difficulties
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| Adj. | 1. |  mired - entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"encumbered - loaded to excess or impeded by a heavy load; "a summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels"- A.J.Liebling; "a hiker encumbered with a heavy backpack"; "an encumbered estate" |
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