Adjective: mired mI(-u)rd
- Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
"brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion";
- involved
- Soil with mud, muck, or mire
"The kids mired their shoes while playing in the garden";
- muck, mud [rare], muck up [informal]
- Be unable to move further
"The car mired in the sand";
- grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down
- Cause to get stuck as if in a mire
"The mud mired our cart";
- bog down
- Entrap
"Our people should not be mired in the past";
- entangle
See also: encumbered
Type of: begrime, bemire [archaic], colly [archaic], dirty, forbid, foreclose, forestall, grime, involve, preclude, prevent, soil, stand still
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