Mire
Mire (mīr) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon mīre, mȳre; akin to Dutch mier, Icelandic maurr, Danish myre, Swedish myra; compare also Ir. moirbh, Greek my`rmhx.]
An ant. [Obsolete]
Mire , noun
[Old English mire, myre; akin to Icelandic m{not transcribed}rr swamp, Swedish myra marshy ground, and perh. to English moss.]
Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. — Chaucer
He his rider from the lofty steed
Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire.
Collocations (2)
Mire crow (Zoology) , the pewit, or laughing gull. [Provincial English]
Mire drum , the European bittern. [Provincial English]
Mire (mīrd) , transitive verb
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 stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; -- often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned.
3.
To soil with mud or foul matter.
Smirched thus and mired with infamy.
Mire , intransitive verb
To stick in mire. — Shakespeare