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miresnounpl. of mire spongy land saturated or partially covered with watermuch of the land in that area is mire that cannot be developed bogs, fens, marshes, marshlands, moors, morasses, muskegs, sloughs(also slews or slues), swamplands, swamps, washes, wetlands swalesquagmiresgucks(or gooks), muck, muds, oozes, slimes, slop, sludges, 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 binds, boxes, catch-22's(or catch-22s), corners, dilemmas, fixes, holes, impasses, jackpots(chiefly West), jams, pickles, predicaments, quagmires, rabbit holes, rattraps, spots, sticky wickets, swamps difficulties, nodeshot waters, soupspinches, plights, quandaries, scrapes, troublesdeadlocks, halts, logjams, stalemates, standstillsclutches, crises, crossroads, emergencies, exigencies, junctures, straits kettles of fish to make dirtythe sight of the standard, which had emerged from the battle mangled and mired, still stirred the soldiers' hearts befouls, begrimes, bemires, besmirches, blackens, daubs, dirties, distains(archaic), fouls, gaums(dialect), grimes, mucks, muddies, smirches, smudges, soils, stains, sullies contaminates, defiles, pollutes, taintsdiscolorsconfuses, disarranges, disarrays, dishevels, disorders, draggles, jumbles, messes, muddlescollies(chiefly British dialect), crocks(dialect) cleans, cleanses decontaminates, purges, purifiesdisinfects, sanitizesbrushes, dry-cleans, dusts, launders, mops, rinses, scours, scrubs, sweeps, washes, wipesbrightens, deodorizes, freshens, renews, spruces (up)straightens (up), tidies (up) to place in conflict or difficultiesthe case has been mired in probate court for years bogs (down), broils, embrangles, embroils enmeshes(also immeshes), ensnares, ensnarls, entangles, entraps, snares, tangles, traps emancipates, frees, liberates, releases |