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miring

verb , present participle of mire

Synonyms and Antonyms of miring

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 miring

befouling, begriming, bemiring, besmirching, blackening, daubing, dirtying, distaining [archaic], fouling, gauming [dialect], griming, mucking, muddying, smirching, smudging, soiling, staining, sullying

Words Related to miring

contaminating, defiling, polluting, tainting

confusing, disarranging, disarraying, disheveling (or dishevelling), disordering, draggling, jumbling, messing, muddling

collying [chiefly British dialect], crocking [dialect]

Near Antonyms of miring

decontaminating, purging, purifying

disinfecting, sanitizing

brushing, dry-cleaning, dusting, laundering, mopping, rinsing, scouring, scrubbing, sweeping, washing, wiping

brightening, deodorizing, freshening, renewing, sprucing (up)

straightening (up), tidying (up)

Antonyms of miring

cleaning, cleansing

2 to place in conflict or difficulties

the case has been mired in probate court for years

Synonyms of miring

bogging (down), broiling, embrangling, embroiling

Words Related to miring

enmeshing (also immeshing), ensnaring, ensnarling, entangling, entrapping, snaring, tangling, trapping

Near Antonyms of miring

emancipating, freeing, liberating, releasing

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