英语词汇“mire”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	mire
释义	mire I. \ˈmī(ə)r, -īə\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse mȳrr; akin to Old English mōs marsh, bog — more at moss 1. a. : a wet spongy earth : marsh, swamp, bog < the mire is relieved only by small stretches of open dry forest — Saturday Review > b. : something resembling a mire < stuck fast in the mire of debt — Adrian Bell > < wallowed continuously in an emotional mire — Lucius Garvin > < sink deeper in the mire of conflict — Joseph Alsop > 2. : heavy often deep mud, slush, or dirt < played on a football field that was thick with mire > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English myren, from myre, mire, n. *transitive verb* 1. a. : to cause to stick fast in or as if in mire : plunge or fix in mire < many cattle were lost in the swamps where … they were mired down — W.M.Kollmorgen > < the advent of a thaw which will mire roads and fields — New York Herald Tribune > b. : entangle, involve < the people … are no more mired in the past — Louis Kronenberger > < the most brilliant leadership can be mired in detail and confusion — Clinton Rossiter > 2. : to soil with mud, slush, or dirt < my mired boots played havoc with the neatly sanded floor — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < furious because she mired the car > *intransitive verb* : to stick or sink in mire < a road in which horses and wagons mired regularly — Edmund Arnold >
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