Mire

//ˈmaɪɚ//

Synonyms for "mire" (138 found)

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Closest matches (28)

entangle adhere baygall befoul begrime bemire bemud besmirch besmoke blacken bog bog down bottom bottomland bottoms buffalo wallow cesspool clay cleave cling

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cloaca cloaca maxima cohere

Noun(2 words)

quag callow

Verb(3 words)

bemire bog down complicate

Strong matches (41)

decelerate defile delay detain dirt dirty dirty up drain dump dust embroil enmesh ensnare entrap everglade fen fenland garbage dump glade glop

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grime grind to halt gumbo gunk hang up hinder hog wallow holm implicate involve marais marish marsh marshland meadow mere

Verb(4 words)

enmire entangle get stuck grind to a halt

Noun(1 words)

flood meadow

Related words (69)

moor moorland morass moss muck muck up mud mud flat muddy ooze peat bog peatland purgatory quag quagmire quicksand retard salt marsh scum septic tank

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Noun(6 words)

morass peatland quagmire slack slop water meadow

Verb(3 words)

muck muck up mud

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

20 entries

begrime bemire bog clay colly difficultness difficulty dirty forbid foreclose forestall grime involve mud peat bog preclude

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Synonyms

3 entries

entangle grind to halt peatland

Related terms

2 entries

antmire pismire

causes

1 entries

grind to halt

derived

12 entries

bemire enmire in the mire mire crow mire drum mireland mirish miry pickmire quagmire unmired wallow in the mire

etymologically related_to

1 entries

moss

is a

4 entries

bog difficulty mud wetland

manner of

1 entries

dirty

related to

4 entries

ant pismire predicament spongy

similar

3 entries

bog down get stuck grind to a halt

Translations

101 translations across 32 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

βόρβορος noun (deep mud)

Bulgarian

3 entries

кал noun (deep mud)
тиня noun (deep mud)
окалям verb (to sink into mud)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

污泥 noun (deep mud)

Czech

4 entries

bahno noun (deep mud)
bažina noun (deep mud)
marast noun (an undesirable situation)
močál noun (deep mud)

Dutch

1 entries

moeras noun (deep mud)

Finnish

3 entries

lieju noun (deep mud)
muta noun (deep mud)
suo noun (deep mud)

French

4 entries

bourbier noun (deep mud)
fange noun (deep mud)
embourber verb (to sink into mud)
enliser verb (to sink into mud)

Galician

4 entries

bulleiro noun (deep mud)
esteiro noun (deep mud)
ludro noun (deep mud)
untullo noun (deep mud)

German

4 entries

Matsch noun (deep mud)
Morast noun (deep mud)
Schlamm noun (deep mud)
einsinken verb (to sink into mud)

Greek

4 entries

βούρκος noun (deep mud)
βούρκος noun (an undesirable situation)
βόρβορος noun (an undesirable situation)
λάσπη noun (an undesirable situation)

Hindi

1 entries

कीचड़ noun (deep mud)

Irish

3 entries

lábán noun (deep mud)
láib noun (deep mud)
puiteach noun (deep mud)

Italian

3 entries

fango noun (deep mud)
limo noun (deep mud)
mota noun (deep mud)

Khmer

1 entries

ផុង noun (deep mud)

Latin

1 entries

lutum noun (deep mud)

Latvian

3 entries

muklājs noun (deep mud)
purvājs noun (deep mud)
staignums noun (deep mud)

Māori

2 entries

kene noun (deep mud)
tapoko verb (to sink into mud)

Navajo

1 entries

hashtłʼish noun (deep mud)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

myr noun (deep mud)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

myr noun (deep mud)

Occitan

4 entries

baldra noun (deep mud)
baldrièr noun (deep mud)
fanga noun (deep mud)
fangalhàs noun (deep mud)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

باتاق noun (deep mud)
چامور noun (deep mud)

Persian

2 entries

باتلاق noun (an undesirable situation)
گلزار noun (deep mud)

Plautdietsch

2 entries

Mautsch noun (deep mud)
Schlaum noun (deep mud)

Polish

1 entries

bagno noun (deep mud)

Portuguese

3 entries

barro noun (deep mud)
lama noun (deep mud)
lodo noun (deep mud)

Russian

3 entries

топь noun (deep mud)
тряси́на noun (deep mud)
погрязнуть verb (to sink into mud)

Sanskrit

1 entries

पङ्क noun (deep mud)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

clàbar noun (deep mud)

Spanish

4 entries

barrizal noun (deep mud)
barro noun (deep mud)
cieno noun (deep mud)
fangal noun (deep mud)

Turkish

4 entries

batak noun (deep mud)
batak noun (an undesirable situation)
çamura batmak verb (to sink into mud)
çamura batırmak verb (to plunge or fix in mud)

Zazaki

1 entries

lınce noun (deep mud)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

“That is the great Grimpen Mire,” said he. “A false step yonder means death to man or beast. Only yesterday I saw one of the moor ponies wander into it. He never came out. I saw his head for quite a long time craning out of the bog-hole, but it sucked him down at last. "

Source: tatoeba (6608584)

Heavenly ire / ne'er sent a pest more loathsome; ne'er were seen / worse plagues to issue from the Stygian mire.

Source: tatoeba (7013932)

This is what the vox populi reports: he who stirs up the mire brings the mud to the surface.

Source: tatoeba (10665896)

His laden feet sand and stuck in mire; he was bedaubed with the blue-gray clay from head to foot; but he had escaped the deadly river!

Source: wiktionary

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