Mire

Quick meaning: Mire is a noun meaning Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.

Meaning

Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.

More Meanings

1. A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.
2. An undesirable situation; a predicament.
3. (transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
4. (intransitive) To sink into mud.
5. (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.
6. (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
7. (rare or obsolete) An ant.

Example Sentences

to mire a horse or wagon

His laden feet sand and stuck in mire; he was bedaubed with the blue-gray clay from head to foot; but he had escaped the deadly river!

Wen I lay down behine dat log I plunk masef right een one dem aunty mire nest an bout 10 million of dem leetle devil begin to heat me.

Glagolev […] measured CH₄ emission from a mire in West Siberia using a static chamber method. Similar methods had been developed and tested by Nakano et al. (2006), Fig. 1.

Word Forms

• mires
• miring
• mired

Synonyms for mire

Depending on context, synonyms include peatland, quag, bemire, enmire, morass, quagmire.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quagmire, morass, muck, entangle, muck up, mud.

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