Mire : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Mire	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Mire
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mire n a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot Synonym(s): mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop" Synonym(s): slop, mire 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" v entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: entangle, mire] cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" Synonym(s): mire, bog down be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" Synonym(s): grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" Synonym(s): mire, muck, mud, muck up
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mire \Mire\, n. [AS. m[c6]re, m[?]re; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. [?].] An ant. [Obs.] See {Pismire}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mire \Mire\, n. [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. m[?]rr swamp, Sw. myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.] Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. --Chaucer. He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. --Spenser. {Mire crow} (Zo[94]l.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] {Mire drum}, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mire \Mire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Miring}.] 1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon. 2. To soil with mud or foul matter. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mire \Mire\, v. i. To stick in mire. --Shak.