1. Entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
   "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
   - involved

1. Entrap
   "Our people should not be mired in the past"
   - entangle 
2. Cause to get stuck as if in a mire
   "The mud mired our cart"
   - bog down 
3. Be unable to move further
   - grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down 
4. Soil with mud, muck, or mire
   - muck, mud, muck up

See also: encumbered

Type of: begrime, bemire [archaic], colly [archaic], dirty, grime, involve, soil, stand still

Encyclopedia: Mire

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