Synonyms for mire

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : mahyuh r

Phonetic Transcription : maɪər

Top 10 synonyms for mire

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Définition of mire

Origin : c.1300, from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse myrr "bog, swamp"), from Proto-Germanic *miuzja- (cf. Old English mos "bog, marsh"), from PIE *meus- "damp" (see moss).

noun muck, morass
verb delay, catch up in

Example sentences :

We found a good many dead, and several horses in the mire, but no wounded.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

The effort we had to make at every step to get our feet out of the mire tired us out.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

You think he's on your side, and suddenly he splashes you with mire!
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Some, in their panic, leaped out into the shallow water and sunk in the mire.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) » by Various

The stove, with its perspective all awry, was tame and precise, and in colour as dingy as mire.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

And the sow that was washed, she went wallerin' in the mire, first chance she got.
Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

And the whiter the soul that is dragged through that—that mire, the more the defilement.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

Alas, her vicious brood have turned on her and cast her ribbons in the mire!
Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham

He had doffed the empty prerogatives of blood and station and left them in the mire and blood.
Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs

We got wet, scratched, and plastered with mire all over our nether garments.
Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad

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