mire
Deep mud; moist, spongy earthDeep mud; moist, spongy earth.
» The world is mired in crisis.
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4 senses(countable, uncountable)Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
Morast, Schlamm, Matsch
топьtopʹ, тряси́наtrjasína
deep soft mud in water or slush
(countable, uncountable)A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.
(countable, uncountable)An undesirable situation; a predicament.
(obsolete, rare)An ant.
Examples
6 sentencesThe world is mired in crisis.
Sami was mired in mud.
The very manner in which the greedy miser carried himself was mired in foul wretchedness.
This is what the vox populi reports: he who stirs up the mire brings the mud to the surface.
Well-intentioned plans to replace half of the office's trash cans with recycling bins inevitably became mired in red tape.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, wFrom Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss).
From Middle English mire, myre, from Old English *mīere, from Proto-West Germanic *miurijā, from Proto-Germanic *miurijǭ (“ant”), from Proto-Indo-European *morwís (“ant”).
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Forms
plural: miresSynonyms
6 synonymsWord family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable