All mire synonyms
mire
M m verb mire
- bog down β If a plan or process bogs down or if something bogs it down, it is delayed and no progress is made.
- implicate β to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: to be implicated in a crime.
- involve β to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
- flounder β to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- stick β a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- tangle β to bring together into a mass of confusedly interlaced or intertwisted threads, strands, or other like parts; snarl.
- trap β a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
- decelerate β When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
- retard β to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
- soil β the act or fact of soiling.
- detain β When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- dirty β soiled with dirt; foul; unclean: dirty laundry.
- cling β If you cling to someone or something, you hold onto them tightly.
- snare β one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
- sink β to displace part of the volume of a supporting substance or object and become totally or partially submerged or enveloped; fall or descend into or below the surface or to the bottom (often followed by in or into): The battleship sank within two hours. His foot sank in the mud. Her head sinks into the pillows.
- set back β the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- hang up β the way in which a thing hangs.
- slow down β moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- slow up β moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- delay β If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- embroil β Involve (someone) deeply in an argument, conflict, or difficult situation.
- enmesh β Cause to become entangled in something.
- ensnare β Catch in or as in a trap.
- entangle β Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.
- entrap β Catch (someone or something) in or as in a trap.
noun mire
- swamp β a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
- marsh β Dame (Edith) Ngaio [nahy-oh] /ΛnaΙͺ oΚ/ (Show IPA), 1899β1982, New Zealand writer of detective novels.
- mud β wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
- sludge β mud, mire, or ooze; slush.
- slush β partly melted snow.
- morass β a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
- bog β A bog is an area of land which is very wet and muddy.
- quagmire β an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
- muck β moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
- dirt β Design In Real Time
- fen β low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
- glop β unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
- goo β a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
- gunk β any sticky or greasy residue or accumulation: gunk on the oil filter.
- moss β Howard, 1922β1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
- ooze β (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
- quicksand β a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- slime β thin, glutinous mud.