Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MIRE

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Definitions of MIRE

1. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
2. An undesirable situation, a predicament.
3. (transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
4. (intransitive) To sink into mud.
5. (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.
6. (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
7. (rare or obsolete) An ant.
8. A surname.

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Examples of Using MIRE in a Sentence

• It is cognate with the Wear in England and Vistula (Polish Wisła, German Weichsel) in Poland, all of which are derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weys- "to flow", which also gives rise to Old English/Old Frisian wāse "mud, ooze", Old Norse veisa "slime, stagnant pool", Dutch waas "haze; soggy land" (see Waasland), Old Saxon waso "wet ground, mire", Old High German wasal "rain" and French vase "mud, sludge".
• Atascadero (Spanish for "Mire") is a city in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States, located on U.
• The route passes nationally important Welsh natural habitats such as sessile oak woodlands, upland mire and heath, and ancient hedgerows.
• In the southern United States, the word is used to mean "a mudhole; a mire," a sense derived from an allusion to the consistency of porridge.
• In 1992, MIRE, a multi-user information system producing customised newspapers was built based on a modified TMI driver.
• British NVC community M35, a mire community; see Mires in the British National Vegetation Classification system.
• British NVC community M36, a mire community; see Mires in the British National Vegetation Classification system.
• It maintained the traditional programs and shows of the First Channel of the Soviet Television (RTO), such as Vremya, KVN, Chto? Gde? Kogda?, V mire zhivotnykh and Travelers' Club; the last two are no longer broadcast on this channel.
• Nokomai patterned mire, in the upper catchment, is part of a relatively unmodified wetland on several square kilometres of the southern Garvie Mountains.
• Because of the region's biodiversity and range of ecosystems (including deciduous rainforests and wetlands, percolation bogs, and other mire types), part of the Colchis Lowland were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021, as the Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands site.
• The bottom of the ravine was trampled into a mire by horses' hoofs, and once in a while they would find a horse shoe.
• Lambert sent the scripts to Martin on 25 February 1965, pleased with their action but concerned about potential production drawbacks; she was primarily concerned with the Mire Beast and Fungoids, having struggled with creatures like the Slyther in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
• The Malls Mire burn, which has been almost entirely culverted, runs north-east under Hampden Park, the Football Centre and the supermarket, to the west of the Prospecthill Circus area under the railway line and motorway, joins the West/Cityford Burn from Rutherglen which becomes the Polmadie Burn (also known as Jenny's Burn) – once heavily polluted by waste from White's Chemicals at nearby Shawfield – and flows into the River Clyde at Richmond Park.
• Kemp Malone, an American etymologist writing in 1944, suggested that the word "Myrging" means "Mire Dweller" or "Mire-District Dweller"; he also suggested that the name points to a miry or marshy habitat for the tribe and that the With-Myrgings were a sub-tribe of Myrgings who expanded across the Eider into Schleswig.
• Still, though, it do confound how such a monumental talent can mire himself in such twaddle, fine as some of it may be.
• Local legend is that the word Istokpoga is of the Seminole language meaning "a lake where someone was killed in the water" because a group of Seminole Indians attempted to cross the lake and were bogged in the mire and swallowed by whirlpools.
• leftAlthough some medieval street names such as Addle Street (stinking urine, or other liquid filth; mire) and Fetter Lane (once Fewterer, meaning "idle and disorderly person") have survived, others have been changed in deference to contemporary attitudes.
• The verb 見る (miru "to look", ma-row), whose inflection forms are 見 (mi), 見る (miru), 見れ (mire) and 見ろ (miro)/見よ (miyo), is an example of an "upper monograde" verb, and the verb 得る (eru "to earn", a-row) is a "lower monograde" verb.
• Three days later it carried him back, but "in a worse state than when he left, for the ceffyl dŵr had dragged him through mire and water, through brambles and briars, until he was scarcely knowable".
• NVC community M20 (Eriophorum vaginatum raised and blanket mire) is one of the mire communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.

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