What does "mire" mean?
Mire: To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
Additional senses
- 2.To soil with mud or foul matter. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. Shak.
- 3.To stick in mire. Shak.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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