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Meanings of mire in English

Portuguese
pântano
Catalan
fanguissar

A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.

        pântano
        Catalan
        embussar
        Spanish
        atascar

        Be unable to move further.

              embussar
              Spanish
              embrollar

              Entrap.

                    embrollar

                    Soil with mud, muck, or mire.

                          Usage of mire in English
                          1
                          A glove is borne aloft; a shoe is trampled in the mire.
                          The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
                          2
                          The proprietor was sinking lower and lower in the mire of dissoluteness.
                          The Rose in the Ring
                          3
                          The voice of the serpent,-thatwhispers from the mire of the sea.
                          The Secret of the Creation
                          4
                          The more fat the sow is, the more she loves the mire.
                          The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable
                          5
                          Let us ascend to the skies, or plunge ourselves in the mire.
                          The Magic Skin
                          6
                          There are also efforts to drag judicial agents into the political mire.
                          The Guardian
                          7
                          The clear-cut indentations led away from the mire up the gently-sloping ground.
                          The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
                          8
                          Her mind, a sluggish mire of self-disgust and defeat, refused to clear.
                          Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
                          9
                          Please do not get us into this deep mire, one shareholder said.
                          Reuters
                          10
                          They be stuck in the mire of the rides long ere this.'
                          King Arthur's Knights / The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
                          11
                          Here they dabbled in mud and mire like a flock of ducks.
                          Biographical Stories / (From: "True Stories of History and Biogr...
                          12
                          A man who denies this is deep in the mire of folly.
                          Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
                          13
                          The iron heel of Imperial Rome had ground individuality into the mire.
                          Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 / Little J...
                          14
                          You and I together will raise Kosnovia from the mire of centuries.
                          A Son of the Immortals
                          15
                          I guess I'll go and try the mire and muck bit now-
                          The Great Book of Amber
                          16
                          Nathaniel, sinking to his knees in the mire, forged up beside him.
                          The Courage of Captain Plum
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                          Translations for mire
                          Portuguese
                          pântano
                          Mire through the time
                          Mire across language varieties
                          United Kingdom
                          Common
                          United States of America
                          Less common