Dictionary Entry
mire
mire is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An ant. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An ant.
- 2noun
Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
- 3transitive verb
To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
- 4transitive verb
To soil with mud or foul matter.
- 5intransitive verb
To stick in mire.
- 6noun
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- 7noun
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"
- 8noun
deep soft mud in water or slush
"they waded through the slop"
Synonyms
- 9verb
soil with mud, muck, or mire
"The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
- 10verb
be unable to move further
"The car bogged down in the sand"
- 11verb
cause to get stuck as if in a mire
"The mud mired our cart"
- 12verb
entrap
"Our people should not be mired in the past"
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