Definition of mire

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Mire (v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter.

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Mire :: Mire (v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon..
Bog :: Bog (n.) A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
Welter :: Welter (n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough..
Daggle-tailed :: Daggle-tailed (a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
Quavemire :: Quavemire (n.) See Quagmire.
Wallow :: Wallow (n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire..
Flounce :: Flounce (v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure..
Mire :: Mire (v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter.
Bemoil :: Bemoil (v. t.) To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.
Devoted :: Devoted (a.) Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer..
Dilettante :: Dilettante (v. t.) An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only..
Admire :: Admire (v. t.) To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape..
Stall :: Stall (v. t.) To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart..
Admire :: Admire (v. i.) To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.
Demirep :: Demirep (n.) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
Ellipsis :: Ellipsis (n.) Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire..
Admire :: Admire (v. t.) To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
Mire :: Mire (n.) Deep mud; wet, spongy earth..
Quag :: Quag (n.) A quagmire.
Quagmire :: Quagmire (n.) Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet..
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