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say it: mahyrd
mired is an adjective meaning "entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire". It is pronounced /ˈmaɪɹd/ — mahyrd. It carries one recorded sense.
entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire
“the difficulties in which the question is involved”
“brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mired come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.