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Adjective: mired  mI(-u)rd
  1. Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
    "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion";
    - involved
Verb: mire  mI(-u)r
  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

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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