mire

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

I - noun

1. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
quagmire, quag, morass, slack
• Derivationally related forms:
quaggy (for: quag), miry
• Hypernyms:
bog, peat bog
2. deep soft mud in water or slush
- they waded through the slop
• Syn:
slop
• Derivationally related forms:
sloppy (for: slop)
• Hypernyms:
mud, clay
3. 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
• Hypernyms:
difficulty

II - verb

1. cause to get stuck as if in a mire
- The mud mired our cart
• Syn:
bog down
• Verb Group:
grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down
• Cause:
grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. be unable to move further
- The car bogged down in the sand
• Syn:
grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down
• Hypernyms:
stand still
• Verb Group:
bog down
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
3. entrap
- Our people should not be mired in the past
• Syn:
entangle
• Derivationally related forms:
entanglement (for: entangle)
• Hypernyms:
involve
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
4. soil with mud, muck, or mire
- The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
• Syn:
muck, mud, muck up
• Derivationally related forms:
mud (for: mud), muck (for: muck)
• Hypernyms:
dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  slop, quagmire, quag, morass, slack, muck, mud, muck up, grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, entangle