1. Deep soft mud in water or slush
   "they waded through the mire";
   - slop
    
2. A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
   "The hikers struggled to cross the treacherous mire";
   - quagmire, quag, morass, slack
    
3. 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"

1. Soil with mud, muck, or mire
   "The kids mired their shoes while playing in the garden";
   - muck, mud [rare], muck up [informal]
    
2. Be unable to move further
   "The car mired in the sand";
   - grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down
    
3. Cause to get stuck as if in a mire
   "The mud mired our cart";
   - bog down
    
4. Entrap
   "Our people should not be mired in the past";
   - entangle

Derived forms: mired, mires, miring

Type of: begrime, bemire [archaic], bog, clay, colly [archaic], difficultness, difficulty, dirty, forbid, foreclose, forestall, grime, involve, mud, peat bog, preclude, prevent, soil, stand still

Encyclopedia: Mire