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单词 bemire
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bemirev.

/bɪˈmʌɪə/
Etymology: < be- prefix 6 + mire n.1
1. transitive. To cover or befoul with mire.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud
mire?c1475
glar?a1500
bemirec1532
bemud1580
bemoila1610
immire1611
muddya1616
mud1632
muddify1739
slutch1745
belute1760
slush1807
slub1886
c1532 T. More Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth in Wks. 833/2 If only they that are alredy bymired, were..myred on more and more.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 100 I was filthily bemired.
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. xvi. 237 His shoes were bemired, as if he had been travelling on foot.
b.figurative.1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Pref. sig. **iv Bemiring it [sc. reason] in the filthie and beastlie pleasures of the world.1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. xvii. 3 The purest innocence will be bemired by malice.
2. To plunge or roll in the mire; in passive to sink in the mire, be bogged. literal and figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (transitive)] > dirty with mud > roll in mud
wallow1570
bemire?1575
?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 366 If we sincke not to the bottome, at the leaste we remayne all bemyred.
1750 J. Wesley Serm. Several Occasions III. 249 Doubt..bemires the Soul.
1883 Cent. Mag. 377 Bemired in the deeply rutted roads.

Derivatives

beˈmired adj.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [adjective] > rendered immobile or held fast > in mud or bog
mired1621
bemired1654
bogged1854
1654 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms II. (Psalms xl. 2) 690 As a bemired beast he was in a perishing condition.
beˈmiring n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > muddiness > dirtying with mud
bemiring1600
bemudding1611
miring1641
1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. x. sig. G2 Good safe care to keep her selfe from bemiring.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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