Mire

Noun

 * 1) Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
 * 2) An undesirable situation, a predicament.

Derived terms

 * miry
 * in the mire
 * quagmire

Verb

 * 1) To weigh down.

Noun

 * 1)  An ant.

Adjectives for Mire
tenacious; puddled; lamp-reflecting; sens¬ual; foul; sucking. verbs cast into—; drag through—; plunge in—; sink in—; spatter in—; splash in—; stumble in—; struggle through—; trample in—; tread in—; wallow in—; —absorbs; —contaminates; —engulfs; —reeks; —sullies; — swallows.

Thesaurus
adhere, baygall, befoul, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmirch, besmoke, blacken, bog, bog down, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, cesspool, clay, cleave, cling, cloaca, cloaca maxima, cohere, decelerate, defile, detain, dirt, dirty, dirty up, drain, dump, dust, embroil, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, everglade, fen, fenland, garbage dump, glade, glop, grime, gumbo, gunk, hog wallow, holm, implicate, involve, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, moor, moorland, morass, moss, muck, muck up, mud, mud flat, muddy, ooze, peat bog, quag, quagmire, quicksand, retard, salt marsh, scum, septic tank, set back, sewer, sink, sink in, slab, slacken, slime, slip, slob, slob land, slop, slosh, slough, slow down, sludge, slush, smear, smoke, smudge, snare, soil, soot, sough, splosh, squash, stick, stodge, sully, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, swill, taiga, tangle, tarnish, trap, wallow, wash

Etymology 1
From mýrr:.

Etymology 2
Perhaps related to Middle Dutch miere: (Dutch mier:}}). Cognate with Old Norse maurr:, Danish myre:.

Noun

 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: fange
 * German: Morast, ,
 * Greek: βούρκος


 * Russian: топь, трясина
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: barrizal, lodazal, fangal,, , cieno


 * Greek:, βούρκος, , βόρβορος

Anagrams

 * emir, Meri, rime

Noun

 * 1)  aim (action of aiming)
 * 2) foresight (of rifle)
 * 3) target (literal, figurative)
 * 4)  test pattern

Etymology
From mira:, from mirare:.

Anagrams

 * émir, Remi, Rémi, rime, rimé

Pronoun

 * 1) onto what

Etymology
From the interrogative pronoun

Noun

 * 1) insanity, dementia, madness

Noun
mire



Anagrams

 * meri, remi, rime

Noun
mire


 * 1) bridegroom

Etymology
Substratum word

Noun

 * 1) merriment, mirth, frolic