Overview of verb mire

The verb mire has 4 senses

• entangle, mire -- (entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past")


• mire, bog down -- (cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart")


• grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire -- (be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand")


• mire, muck, mud, muck up -- (soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden")

Overview of adj mired

The adj mired has 1 sense

• involved, mired -- (entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion")