verb
- Entrap.
- usage: "Our people should not be mired in the past"
- Cause to get stuck as if in a mire.
- usage: "The mud mired our cart"
- Be unable to move further.
- usage: "The car bogged down in the sand"
- synonyms: grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire
- Soil with mud, muck, or mire.
- usage: "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
adjective
- Entangled or hindered as if e. G. In mire.
- usage: "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"
- synonyms: involved
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