mire

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsquagmirequagmorassslack

   Broaderbog
2. 2.

   deep soft mud in water or slush

   “they waded through the slop”

   Synonymsslop

   Broadermud
3. 3.

   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”

   Broaderdifficulty

Other forms of mire

plural

mires·

past tense

mired·

present participle

miring·

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 mire

What does mire mean?

mire means "entrap". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mire?

mire has 1 syllable: mire. In IPA it is /ˈmaɪɹ/.

What is another word for mire?

Close synonyms include entangle, bog down, grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down. 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 mire a common word?

mire 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.

What rhymes with mire?

3 words rhyme with mire. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.