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To become embroiled or implicated in
“Yet the mass of details, informative and rich as they are, tend to mire the book in a swamp of names and dates.”
To become, or cause to become, stuck in mud
“Couldn't the sediment at the bottom be so deep that it might mire the car with both of them in it?”
To dirty or soil, such as with mud
“But they'd made good time over the roads, which couldn't decide whether to jar their bones with rocks and bumps or mire them in mud.”
To show (someone) to be involved in something unsavory or unlawful
To make something more complex
To stop, hinder or impede the flow or progress of
To make unclear or difficult to understand
To apprehend or arrest someone
Difficult or tangled situations
Issues or problems requiring resolution
Plural for a stretch of swampy or boggy ground
“One side was fence, the other a swamp, a mire skewered by rotting birch trunks bracketed by hard tinder fungi.”
Plural for soft mud or dirt
“The muck and mire are long gone, and the golf course looks much the same as it did on opening day.”
Plural for a problematic situation that is difficult or impossible to escape
“We must get out of this mire, this stupidity, this unconsciousness, this disgusting defeatism that crushes because we allow ourselves to be crushed.”
Plural for the quality or state of being dirty or filthy
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