What is the meaning of mire?

noun

• A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
  • synonyms: quagmire, quag, morass, slack
• Deep soft mud in water or slush.
  • usage: "they waded through the slop"
  • synonyms: slop
• A difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from.
  • usage: "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"

verb

• Entrap.
  • usage: "Our people should not be mired in the past"
  • synonyms: entangle
• Cause to get stuck as if in a mire.
  • usage: "The mud mired our cart"
  • synonyms: bog down
• Be unable to move further.
  • usage: "The car bogged down in the sand"
  • synonyms: grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down
• Soil with mud, muck, or mire.
  • usage: "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
  • synonyms: muck, mud, muck up