| NOUN | object | mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack | a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot |
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| substance | mire, slop | deep soft mud in water or slush | |
| state | mire | a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from | |
| VERB | stative | mire, entangle | entrap |
| motion | mire, bog down | cause to get stuck as if in a mire | |
| motion | mire, grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down | be unable to move further | |
| contact | mire, muck, mud, muck up | soil with mud, muck, or mire |
| Sounds | may'er; may'r | |
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| Rhymes | acquire ... wire: 63 rhymes with ayer... | |
| admire ... wire: 34 rhymes with ayr... | ||
| Meaning | A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. | |
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| Synonyms | quagmire, quag, morass, slack | |
| Broader | bog, peat bog | wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation |
| Spanish | barrizal, cenagal, ciénaga, fangal, lodacero, lodazal, moca, pantano, tolla, tremedal | |
| Catalan | fangar, fanguera, fanguissar, pantà, zona pantanosa | |
| Adjectives | miry | (of soil) soft and watery |
| Verbs | mire | soil with mud, muck, or mire |
| mire | be unable to move further | |
| mire | cause to get stuck as if in a mire | |
| Meaning | Deep soft mud in water or slush. | |
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| Synonym | slop | |
| Broader | mud, clay | water soaked soil |
| Spanish | barrizal, fangal, lodazal | |
| Meaning | A difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from. | |
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| Broader | difficulty | A condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome |
| Meaning | entrap. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "Our people should not be mired in the past" | |
| Synonym | entangle | |
| Broader | involve | Engage as a participant |
| Spanish | confundir, embrollar, enredar | |
| Meaning | Cause to get stuck as if in a mire. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The mud mired our cart" | |
| Synonym | bog down | |
| Cause to | grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire | Be unable to move further |
| Similar to | grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire | Be unable to move further |
| Spanish | atascar | |
| Catalan | embussar | |
| Nouns | mire | a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot |
| Meaning | Be unable to move further. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s | |
| Synonyms | grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down | |
| Caused by | mire, bog down | Cause to get stuck as if in a mire |
| Broader | stand still | Remain in place |
| Similar to | mire, bog down | Cause to get stuck as if in a mire |
| Spanish | abarrancarse | |
| Nouns | mire | a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot |
| Meaning | Soil with mud, muck, or mire. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | muck, mud, muck up | |
| Broader | dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire | make soiled, filthy, or dirty |
| Nouns | mire | a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot |
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