Definitions for mire

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Spelling: [mahyuh r]

IPA: /maɪər/

Mire is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in mire (eimr).

Definitions for mire

noun

1. a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
2. ground of this kind, as wet, slimy soil of some depth or deep mud.

verb (used with object)

1. to plunge and fix in mire; cause to stick fast in mire.
2. to involve; entangle.
3. to soil with mire; bespatter with mire.

verb (used without object)

1. to sink in mire or mud; stick.

Origin of mire

1300-50; Middle English Old Norse mȳrr bog; cognate with Old English mēos moss

Examples for mire

The effort we had to make at every step to get our feet out of the mire tired us out.

Alas, her vicious brood have turned on her and cast her ribbons in the mire!

We found a good many dead, and several horses in the mire, but no wounded.

And the sow that was washed, she went wallerin' in the mire, first chance she got.

The stove, with its perspective all awry, was tame and precise, and in colour as dingy as mire.

You think he's on your side, and suddenly he splashes you with mire!

Some, in their panic, leaped out into the shallow water and sunk in the mire.

And the whiter the soul that is dragged through that—that mire, the more the defilement.

Desert warfare was, by definition, mobile warfare, the antithesis of the lethal attrition in the mire of the Western Front.

But she let us film her journey back from the mire of scandal and the brink of despair for OWN.