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English Dictionary: mired by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mired
adj
  1. entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
    Synonym(s): involved, mired
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.
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