mire

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Can company x grow out of the mire of this?

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Quick take

a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mire gathered in one view.

noun

a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

noun

deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop"

noun

a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mire.

noun

a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

noun

deep soft mud in water or slush; "they waded through the slop"

noun

a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"

verb

entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past"

verb

cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart"

verb

be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand"

verb

soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"

Example sentences

Can company x grow out of the mire of this?

Actually, this is exactly why those who mire in poverty have more children.

Not to mention that if there are any errors, you have to wade back into the mire to try and get it fixed.

I'd love to learn mire about them, but following references is a bit time consuming.

A poor control panel lacking vital functions, frequent downtime, and slow io mire it.

C'mon now, this isn't a political article, let's not mire the discussion in politics irrelevant to the link

Now we are moving away from the science and technology of extending lifespan and into the mire of politics.

Many of USA identity theft horror stories could never happen here; as soon as their own cash is threatened, banks can be much mire diligent.

They must, or we will continually mire ourselves in grey areas of general suspiciousness.

Elsevier has rightly earned the mire of academics around the world, and I'm sure they'll continue that path with their acquisition of Mendeley.

And slowly but surely the organization which put men on the Moon morphed into a typical bureaucratic mire with the most important goal to merely funnel high-paying government aerospace contracts to key congressional districts.

Or, from Kipling:As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of man /There are only four things certain since Social Progress began /That the dog returns to his vomit, and the sow returns to her mire /And the burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire

After the very strenuous efforts we made to emerge from a period of long life lamps, it is of the greatest importance that we do not sink back into the same mire by paying no attention to voltages and supplying lamps that will have a very prolonged life.”