[
US
/ˈmaɪɝ, ˈmaɪɹ/
]
[ UK /mˈaɪə/ ]
[ UK /mˈaɪə/ ]
NOUN
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
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deep soft mud in water or slush
they waded through the slop -
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
VERB
-
cause to get stuck as if in a mire
The mud mired our cart -
entrap
Our people should not be mired in the past -
be unable to move further
The car bogged down in the sand -
soil with mud, muck, or mire
The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
How To Use mire In A Sentence
- I admire the inventiveness, and while not everything is a raging success, there's a lot to like.
- Some self-absorbed children play elaborate fantasy games by themselves, and one can admire their creativity and imagination.
- Lambert isn't against atonalism, and admires Berg a great deal, but he's against any sort of dogmatism, and the atonalists had become dogmatic even by then.
- He admired Machiavelli for recognizing that sometimes our ends are mutually exclusive and for facing that fact unblinkingly.
- If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
- I would argue that this "mire" in which we have so willingly immersed ourselves results from our refusal to use labels. What is an Atheist?
- This was their fourth defeat in a row and leaves them mired in the bottom three. Times, Sunday Times
- He carefully draped it over Ramirez, and soon the warmth from the luxuriant fur stilled his chattering teeth and banished the damp.
- During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
- No doubt we can admire the architectonic structure of these systems aesthetically, as we would un chef-d'oeuvre de l'art. METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION