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mire has 12 distinct synonyms spread across 6 of its 7 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
be unable to move further
“The car bogged down in the sand”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for mire come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
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”