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say it: mahyrd
mired is an adjective meaning "entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire". 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.