mire

mire

noun

Definition of MIRE

1

soft wet earth <played on a football field that was thick with mire>

Synonyms guck (or gook), mire, muck, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush

Related Words gumbo, silt; clay, dirt, gravel, humus, loam, sand, soil

2

spongy land saturated or partially covered with water <much of the land in that area is mire that cannot be developed>

Synonyms bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, morass, muskeg, slough (also slew or slue), swampland, wash, wetland

Related Words swale; quagmire; guck (or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush

3

a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape <an abused wife who was hopelessly stuck in a mire of emotional dependency>

Synonyms bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

Related Words difficulty, node; hot water, soup; pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble; deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill; clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait