Usually means: Swampy, boggy ground; difficult situation.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. mire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mire, Mire, mire: Wordnik
  7. mire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mire, mire: Wiktionary
  9. mire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mire: Dictionary.com
  13. mire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mire (disambiguation), Mire (short story), Mire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mire: Rhymezone
  19. mire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mire: Free Dictionary
  22. mire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mire: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. mire: Legal dictionary

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  1. mire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mire: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MIRE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. mire: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mire: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
noun:  An undesirable situation, a predicament.
verb:  (transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
verb:  (intransitive) To sink into mud.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.
verb:  (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
noun:  (rare or obsolete) An ant.
noun:  A surname.

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