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mirenoun soft wet earthplayed on a football field that was thick with mire guck(or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush gumbo, siltclay, dirt, gravel, humus, loam, sand, soil spongy land saturated or partially covered with watermuch of the land in that area is mire that cannot be developed bog, fen, marsh, marshland, moor, morass, muskeg, slough(also slew or slue), swamp, swampland, wash, wetland swalequagmireguck(or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escapean abused wife who was hopelessly stuck in a mire of emotional dependency bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot(chiefly West), jam, pickle, predicament, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp difficulty, nodehot water, souppinch, plight, quandary, scrape, troubledeadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstillclutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait kettle of fish to make dirtythe sight of the standard, which had emerged from the battle mangled and mired, still stirred the soldiers' hearts befoul, begrime, bemire, besmirch, blacken, daub, dirty, distain(archaic), foul, gaum(dialect), grime, muck, muddy, smirch, smudge, soil, stain, sully contaminate, defile, pollute, taintdiscolorconfuse, disarrange, disarray, dishevel, disorder, draggle, jumble, mess, muddlecolly(chiefly British dialect), crock(dialect) clean, cleanse decontaminate, purge, purifydisinfect, sanitizebrush, dry-clean, dust, launder, mop, rinse, scour, scrub, sweep, wash, wipebrighten, deodorize, freshen, renew, spruce (up)straighten (up), tidy (up) to place in conflict or difficultiesthe case has been mired in probate court for years bog (down), broil, embrangle, embroil enmesh(also immesh), ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, entrap, snare, tangle, trap emancipate, free, liberate, release in the 14th century |