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mire

mire is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
  2. 2.To soil with mud or foul matter. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. Shak.
  3. 3.To stick in mire. Shak.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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