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verb

Mire v. t. (past & past part. mired; pres. part. miring)

To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

Hence: To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned.

To soil with mud or foul matter. "Smirched thus and mired with infamy."

Mire v. i. To stick in mire.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mired" Quotes from Famous Books

... the policeman's horse stumbled and fell, Campbell, leaping off as the horse fell and grabbing at the halter of Berube's horse, but failing to hold him owing to the speed. Berube again threatened the riddling process, but the constables chased him to a slough, where the smuggler's horse got mired, but Berube tried to lead him out. Campbell fired in the air, but Berube kept going, whereupon Campbell shot the smuggler's horse, and the patrol took Berube and his four horses into camp. Deane says that as the horses appeared to be glandered, he wired for Veterinary Surgeon Wroughton ...

— Policing the Plains - Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police • R.G. MacBeth