mire.

1. Wet muddy ground that can impede movement or trap what enters it.

2. A difficult or disreputable situation that is hard to escape.

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Words that belong together

• deep mire
• boggy mire

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Deep mire swallowed the cart's rear wheels.

She tested the boggy mire with a branch before stepping forward.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Usually mass noun; plural mires for areas or figurative situations. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: mires.