mire
IPA: mˈaɪr
noun
- Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
- An undesirable situation, a predicament.
- (rare or obsolete) An ant.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
- (intransitive) To sink into mud.
- (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.
- (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
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Examples of "mire" in Sentences
- Married, the mire was her portion, whatever she might do.
- I would argue that this "mire" in which we have so willingly immersed ourselves results from our refusal to use labels.
- That men are contented to be as pigs in the mire is the clearest evidence that their crowns and dignities have been burnt away.
- Even the worst drunks that hang out at the local bar here know that Fox news is a bunch of worn out republican journalist grasping at straws while sinking in mire.
- Page 10 to the intoxicating cup for stimulus to artificial excitement, and drowned all seasonable delight in mire, and a poison that not the dumb animals will swallow.
- The king's ministers and the false prophets who misled him. sunk in ... mire -- proverbial for, Thou art involved by "thy friends '" counsels in inextricable difficulties.
- The idea that if we create a fairer more forgiving society with a fully supportive social system the disenfranchised will lift themselves oput of the mire is frankly just not true anymore.
- With calls for Senator Clinton to abandon what is now seen as little more than a schismatic adventure that risks a fracture along a racial fault-line dividing the Democratic Party just as the Whig Party was fractured by race, some have deduced that the probable motive driving the sinking campaign deeper into the mire is a misplaced belief some attribute to James Carville that they can torpedo Obama's presidential ambitions; survive the disaster of his loss to McCain and prevail as owners of the Democratic Party through the agency of the now discredited Democratic Leadership Council.
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