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mire

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mire

1 soft wet earth

  • played on a football field that was thick with mire
Synonyms of mire

guck (or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush
Words Related to mire

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 of mire

bog, fen, marsh, marshland, moor, morass, muskeg, slough (also slew), swamp, swampland, wash, wetland
Words Related to mire

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 of mire

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

difficulty, node

hot water, soup

pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble

deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill

clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait
Phrases Synonymous with mire

kettle of fish

mire

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of mire

1 to make dirty

  • the sight of the standard, which had emerged from the battle mangled and mired, still stirred the soldiers' hearts
Synonyms of mire

befoul, begrime, bemire, besmirch, blacken, daub, dirty, distain [archaic], foul, gaum [dialect], grime, muck, muddy, smirch, smudge, soil, stain, sully
Words Related to mire

contaminate, defile, pollute, taint

discolor

confuse, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, disorder, draggle, jumble, mess, muddle

colly [chiefly British dialect], crock [dialect]
Near Antonyms of mire

decontaminate, purge, purify

disinfect, sanitize

brush, dry-clean, dust, launder, mop, rinse, scour, scrub, sweep, wash, wipe

brighten, deodorize, freshen, renew, spruce (up)

straighten (up), tidy (up)
Antonyms of mire

clean, cleanse

2 to place in conflict or difficulties

  • the case has been mired in probate court for years
Synonyms of mire

bog (down), broil, embrangle, embroil
Words Related to mire

enmesh (also immesh), ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entrap, snare, tangle, trap
Near Antonyms of mire

emancipate, free, liberate, release

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