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What is another word for mire?

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Noun
A stretch of swampy or boggy ground
“One side was fence, the other a swamp, a mire skewered by rotting birch trunks bracketed by hard tinder fungi.”
Noun
Soft mud or dirt
“The muck and mire are long gone, and the golf course looks much the same as it did on opening day.”
Noun
A problematic situation that is difficult or impossible to escape
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“We must get out of this mire, this stupidity, this unconsciousness, this disgusting defeatism that crushes because we allow ourselves to be crushed.”
Noun
The quality or state of being dirty or filthy
Noun
Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements
Verb
To become embroiled or implicated in
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“Yet the mass of details, informative and rich as they are, tend to mire the book in a swamp of names and dates.”
Verb
To become, or cause to become, stuck in mud
“Couldn't the sediment at the bottom be so deep that it might mire the car with both of them in it?”
Verb
To dirty or soil, such as with mud
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“But they'd made good time over the roads, which couldn't decide whether to jar their bones with rocks and bumps or mire them in mud.”
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To make something more complex
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To stop, hinder or impede the flow or progress of
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To apprehend or arrest someone
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