What is the meaning of MIRE. Phrases containing MIRE
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n.
That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
imp. & p. p.
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v. i.
To stick in mire.
v. t.
To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.
a.
Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
n.
To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
n.
A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
n.
An ant.
a.
Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.
n.
Mud; mire; soft mud; slush.
n.
Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
v. i.
To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
v. i.
To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce.
v. t.
To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
v. t.
To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.
n.
A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
v. t.
To soil with mud or foul matter.
v. i.
To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure.
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