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mire

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mire

1 soft wet earth
  • We 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
3 a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
  • The company is caught in a mire of legal problems.
Synonyms of mire

bind, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jam, pickle, predicament, quagmire, spot
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, foul, 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
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, 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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