mires in English

noun

1

a stretch of swampy or boggy ground.

One side was fence, the other a swamp, a mire skewered by rotting birch trunks bracketed by hard tinder fungi.

2

a situation or state of difficulty, distress, or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself.

he has been left to squirm in a mire of new allegations

synonyms: mess, difficulty, plight, predicament, tight spot, trouble, quandary, muddle, jam, fix, pickle, hot water

verb

1

cause to become stuck in mud.

sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down

synonyms: bog down, sink (down)

noun

swamp, bog, morass, quagmire, slough, swampland, wetland, marshland
mud, slime, dirt, filth, muck
mess, difficulty, plight, predicament, tight spot, trouble, quandary, muddle, jam, fix, pickle, hot water
quag, quagmire, morass, slack
slop

verb

bog down, entangle, mud, grind to a halt
bog down, sink (down)
entangle, tangle up, embroil, catch up, mix up, involve
bog down
mud, muck, muck up
grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down
entangle

Use "mires" in a sentence

1. Synonyms for Alluviums include alluvion, sludge, ooze, mires, muck, mud, silt, slime, sediment and slush

2. He looked out across the darkening moor, its becks and mires, its hills d bony ridges of granite.

3. ON Arraigning ANCESTORS words left Stowe "feeling at once deep respect for the man and horror for the system."" Stowe's distinction between "the man" and "the system" now goes unrecognized; blindness to past complexity mires us in cognitive dissonance

4. Afforestation actions taking place in 2017-2030 on wetland, including peatland, the Natura 2000 network and habitats listed in Annex I to Directive 92/43/EEC, in particular natural and semi-natural grassland formations and raised bogs and mires and fens, and other wetland, including peatland, under applied gross-net accounting rules shall not appear in the Member State’s national accounting.