Found 3 items, similar to Mire.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: mire ambles, lumpur
English → English (WordNet) Definition: mire mire n : a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: quagmire, quag, morass] v 1: entrap; “Our people should not be mired in the past” [syn: entangle] 2: cause to get stuck as if in a mire; “The mud mired our cart” [syn: bog down] 3: be unable to move further; “The car bogged down in the sand” [syn: grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down] 4: soil with mud, muck, or mire; “The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden” [syn: muck, mud, muck up ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Mire Mire \Mire\ (m[imac]r), n. [AS. m[=i]re, m[=y]re; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. my`rmhx.] An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire. [1913 Webster] Mire \Mire\, n. [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. m?rr swamp, Sw. myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.] Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Mire crow (Zo["o]l.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] Mire \Mire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mired (m[imac]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Miring.] [1913 Webster] 1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; -- often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned. [PJC] 3. To soil with mud or foul matter. [1913 Webster] Smirched thus and mired with infamy. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Mire \Mire\, v. i. To stick in mire. --Shak. [1913 Webster]