| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb mire.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (mire) | 1. Entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past".[Wordnet]. 2. Cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart".[Wordnet]. 3. Be unable to move further.[Wordnet]. 4. Soil with mud, muck, or mire.[Wordnet]. 5. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.[Websters]. 6. To soil with mud or foul matter.[Websters]. 7. To stick in mire.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: miring, mired, mires, mirer, mirers, miringly and miredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "MIRING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1860. (references) |
Specialty Definition: mire
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] Deep mud; earth so wet and soft as to yield to the feet and to wheels.. | 2: [Verb] To plunge and fix in mire; to set or stall in mud. We say, a horse, an ox or a carriage is mired, when it has sunk deep into mud and its progress is stopped.. | 3: [Verb] To soil or daub with mud or foul matter.. | 4: [Verb] To sink in mud, or to sink so deep as to be unable to move forward.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Administration | (1) An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog. (2) Deep, slimy soil or mud. (references) | ||
| Dream Interpretation | To dream of going through mire, indicates that your dearest wishes and plans will receive a temporary check by the intervention of unusual changes in your surroundings. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Forestry | Slimy soil or deep mud. (references) | ||
| Geography | Mire is geographically located in Cameroon. Its features include a stream (a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land). Its geographic coordinates are 2.3 degrees North latitude and 12.7 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Geology | Synonymous with any peat-accumulating wetland. (references) | ||
| Mining | Mud. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Etymology 1] An undesirable situation, a predicament. (references) | 2: [Etymology 1] Deep mud; moist, spongy earth. (references) | 3: [Etymology 1] To weigh down. (references) | 4: [Etymology 2] (obsolete) An ant. (references) |
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Common Expressions: mire
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Kirmond le Mire | Kirmond le Mire is a small village in West Lindsey in the English county of Lincolnshire. (references) | ||
| Mire crow | (Zo["o]l.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.]. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Mire drum | The European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Point de mire | Point de mire was a popular Quebec information show on Radio-Canada that aired from 1956 to 1959. The television show is famous for being hosted by a future cabinet minister and premier of Quebec, René Lévesque. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: mire
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Dun in the Mire | Literature | 1: "If thou art dun we'll draw thee from the mire." 2: Duchesse of Suffolke (1631). 3: Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, i. 4. 4: To draw Dun out of the mire. To lend a helping hand to one in distress. The allusion is to an English game, explained by Mr. Gifford in his edition of Ben Jonson, vii. 283. A log of wood is brought into a room. The log, called Dun, is supposed to have fallen into the mire, and the players are to pull him out. Every player does all he can to obstruct the others, and as often as possible the log is made to fall on someone's toes. Constant allusion is made to this game. 5: "Sires, what? Dun is in the mire." - Chaucer: 6: Prologue to Maunciples Tale. 7: "Well done, my masters, lend's your hands; 8: Draw Dun out of the ditch, 9: Draw, pull, helpe all. So, so; well done." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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