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

1. noun. An ant.
2. noun. Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
3. transitive verb. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
4. transitive verb. To soil with mud or foul matter.
5. intransitive verb. To stick in mire.
6. noun. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

   Synonyms: morass, quag, quagmire, slack

7. noun. 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"

8. noun. deep soft mud in water or slush

   "they waded through the slop"

   Synonyms: slop

9. verb. soil with mud, muck, or mire

   "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"

   Synonyms: muck, mud

10. verb. be unable to move further

    "The car bogged down in the sand"

11. verb. cause to get stuck as if in a mire

    "The mud mired our cart"

12. verb. entrap

    "Our people should not be mired in the past"

    Synonyms: entangle

Synonyms

morass, quag, quagmire, slack, slop, muck, mud, entangle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mire:

emir, imer, meir, reim, remi, riem, rime

Common word forms

mired, mires, miring

Words from these letters

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