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Bookmark or Share- MIRE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionaryto cause something to sink in deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. to cause someone or an activity to become trapped in a difficult situation: fig. At the time the country was mired in the Great Depression. (Definition of mire from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
- Mire Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster1. : wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) the mire is relieved only by small stretches of open dry forest Saturday Review. 2. : heavy often deep mud or slush. The troops trudged onward through the mire. 3. : a troublesome or intractable situation. found themselves in a mire of debt.
- MIRE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.comnoun. a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh. ground of this kind, as wet, slimy soil of some depth or deep mud. verb (used with object) , mired, mir·ing. to plunge and fix in mire; cause to stick fast in mire. to involve; entangle. to soil with mire; bespatter with mire. verb (used without object) , mired, mir·ing.
- MIRE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionaryto cause something to sink in deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. to cause someone or an activity to become trapped in a difficult situation: fig. At the time the country was mired in the Great Depression. (Definition of mire from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
- MIRE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary1. singular noun. You can refer to an unpleasant or difficult situation as a mire of some kind . [literary] ...a mire of poverty and ignorance. [ + of] 2. uncountable noun. Mire is dirt or mud. [literary] ...the muck and mire of sewers and farmyards.
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