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Meanings of mire in English
Synonyms
Examples for "slack"
Examples for "slack"
1
Shortly, Ipshank returned; he carried the young girl slack in his arms.
2
The private sector remains in no position to pick up the slack.
3
He lifted the slack body down and put it in the sand.
4
But absolute oil inventory levels remained high globally due to slack demand.
5
However, eight different players scored for Cincy to pick up the slack.
1
Shipbuilding partnerships are an obvious way out of Moscow's current industrial morass.
2
The key to the fatal morass would soon be in his hands.
3
It was not a morass of shifting tribes; it was a nation.
4
Even animals were wary of penetrating the dense morass of prickly bushes.
5
Rain was continuous and the valley of the Auja became a morass.
1
The legal quagmire meant a political solution was required, Mr Geddis said.
2
They came to a quagmire in the red clay of the road.
3
Well home remodelling might be the way out of your disorganisation quagmire.
4
We seem to be in a quagmire here; it might be helpful.
5
Again and again he struggled furiously to escape from the oozy quagmire.
1
Catched un in the quag by th' old gravel pits.
2
And, lo, on the left hand there was a quag.
3
Over a spread-out swamp, a quag that ate the tracks.
4
Seven weeks after that he would succumb to a wasting quag disease and leave Judah alone.
5
His blood pooled and thickened in the quag.
Usage of mire in English
1
A glove is borne aloft; a shoe is trampled in the mire.
2
The proprietor was sinking lower and lower in the mire of dissoluteness.
3
The voice of the serpent,-thatwhispers from the mire of the sea.
4
The more fat the sow is, the more she loves the mire.
5
Let us ascend to the skies, or plunge ourselves in the mire.
6
There are also efforts to drag judicial agents into the political mire.
7
The clear-cut indentations led away from the mire up the gently-sloping ground.
8
Her mind, a sluggish mire of self-disgust and defeat, refused to clear.
9
Please do not get us into this deep mire, one shareholder said.
10
They be stuck in the mire of the rides long ere this.'
11
Here they dabbled in mud and mire like a flock of ducks.
12
A man who denies this is deep in the mire of folly.
13
The iron heel of Imperial Rome had ground individuality into the mire.
14
You and I together will raise Kosnovia from the mire of centuries.
15
I guess I'll go and try the mire and muck bit now-
16
Nathaniel, sinking to his knees in the mire, forged up beside him.
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Translations for mire
Portuguese
Mire through the time
Mire across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common