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1. Oxford Dictionary

   mire

   • IPA[ˈmʌɪə]

   英式

   • n.
     a stretch of swampy or boggy ground；soft mud or dirt
   • v.
     cause to become stuck in mud；cover or spatter with mud

   • noun: mire, plural noun: mires

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a stretch of swampy or boggy ground acres of land had been reduced to a mire
   • ▪ soft mud or dirt the roads retained their winter mire 同義詞 mud, slime, sludge, dirt, filth, ... 更多ooze, muck, dialectclag
   • ▪ a wetland area or ecosystem based on peat. 同義詞 swamp, bog, morass, peat bog, quagmire, ... 更多quag, slough, sump, quicksand, fen, fenland, swampland, marshland, wetland, salt marsh, saltings, salina, bayou, moor
   • 2. a complicated or unpleasant situation from which it is difficult to extricate oneself the service is sinking in the mire of its own regulations

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. cause to become stuck in mud sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down 同義詞 get bogged down, sink, sink down, stick in the mud
   • ▪ cover or spatter with mud the horse waded through the red mud that mired it to its hocks 同義詞 dirty, soil, muddy, begrime, spatter, ... 更多smear, make muddy/dirty, cake with dirt/soil
   • ▪ involve someone or something in (a difficult situation) the economy is mired in its longest recession since the war 同義詞 entangle, tangle up, embroil, enmesh, catch up, ... 更多mix up, involve, bog down