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verb

Mire v. t. (past & past part. mired; pres. part. miring)

To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

Hence: 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.

To soil with mud or foul matter. "Smirched thus and mired with infamy."

Mire v. i. To stick in mire.

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Etymology of 'Mired'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mired" Quotes from Famous Books

... garden in their eyes, Lovely its spell of long-ago; Now waste and mired its glory lies, And yet they hold it dearer so, Who see beneath the wounds it bears A ...

— Mr. Punch's History of the Great War • Punch

... squeezed her listless, small and short fingers with gnawed, tiny nails. "It's fine—your coming into our modest wigwam. This will refresh us and implant in our midst quiet and decent customs. Alexandra! Be-er!" he began to call loudly. "We've grown wild, coarse; have become mired in foul speech, drunkenness, laziness and other vices. And all because we were deprived of the salutary, pacifying influence of feminine society. Once again I press your hand. Your charming, ...

— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin

... a sea of black, sticky mud; dogs mired in the streets and died, and teams and animals had forsaken the usual route of travel. The gambling houses and saloons were crowded, gum boots in demand, and the only way to get out of town was by water. I took this way out, and on the same boat by ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... burned off between the strips of plowing, but I felt that I ought to be at home. So I rode on at a good trot to make my circuit of the marsh to the west. The cattle could get through, but a horse with a man on his back might easily get mired in Vandemark's Folly anywhere along there; and my motto was, "The more ...

— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick

... the disorderly rout, he was one of those who was mired in the swamps. He left his horse there, and with a few others tried to make his way to Detroit. Twice the party escaped capture by hiding in the grass, as the Indians passed near them, but on the third morning they were ambushed; ...

— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells