bemire

Other forms of bemire

past tense

bemired·

present participle

bemiring·

third person

bemires·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bemire

What does bemire mean?

bemire means "make soiled, filthy, or dirty".

How many syllables are in bemire?

bemire has 2 syllables: be-mire. The stress falls on "mire".

What is another word for bemire?

Close synonyms include dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bemire a common word?

bemire is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.