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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt |
| Type of | stand still |
| Verb group | bog down |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bog down |
| Verb group | grind to a halt, bog down, get stuck |
The mud mired our cart.
mire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | difficulty |
the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president.
caught in the mire of poverty.
Examples of mire
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It will take more than another striker to raise this team from the mire it's in.
From the theargus.co.uk
Much-ballyhooed social programs have sunk in a mire of administrative muddling.
From the businessweek.com
All clubs in the relegation mire, should report us to the Football Association.
From the expressandstar.com
Let the naive continue to support him and watch as we sink further into the mire.
From the expressandstar.com
Eighteen minutes in, the story stumbled so badly it landed face down in the mire.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Indian school education needs help from all quarters to lift itself from the mire.
From the online.wsj.com
Good job we bagged 18 points early in the season or we would be right in the mire.
From the expressandstar.com
People need to feel that the new people are there to get them out of the mire.
From the businessweek.com
Sometimes the experiences are so dark that we cannot see through the muck and mire.
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- A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- Entangle: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past"
- Cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart"
- Slop: deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop"
- A difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"
- Grind to a halt: be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand"
- Soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
- (mired) involved: entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
- 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 kmu00B2 (0.386 squ00A0mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
