The meaning of MIRE is wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh). How to use mire in a sentence.

MIRE definition: a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh. See examples of mire used in a sentence.

MIRE meaning: 1. an area of deep, wet, sticky earth 2. an unpleasant situation that is difficult to escape: 3…. Learn more.

Definition of mire noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

5 days ago · mire (third-person singular simple present mires, present participle miring, simple past and past participle mired) (intransitive) To sink into mud. (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.

1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog. 2. Deep slimy soil or mud. 3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty.

Debt charities helped people mired in mountains of debt over unpaid rent and utility bills. The case has been mired in secrecy and delay. Those moves have been mired in legal wrangling. But the plan is …

A mire, peatland, or quagmire is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants. Mires arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually litter from vegetation, due to water …

Mire definition: An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.

Mire still has its original, though less-used, sense of a slushy, muddy bit of land that gives way underfoot, also known as a quagmire. One of the most famous mires in literary history was the one …