mire

[US]/maɪə/
[UK]/'maɪɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. quagmire; marsh
vi. get stuck in mud; get into difficulties
vt. bog down in mud; get into difficulties

Phrases & Collocations

mired in debt

mire the situation

Example Sentences

the mire of poverty.

he has been left to squirm in a mire of new allegations.

sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down .

his story is an achingly human one, mired in quotidian details.

He mired his car and had to go for help,

One year after the crash, the markets remain mired in a deep malaise.

the economy is mired in its longest recession since the second world war.

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