Mire

English

Noun

Mire (plural Mires)

1. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
2. An undesirable situation, a predicament.

Derived terms

• miry
• in the mire
• quagmire

Verb

Mire (third-person singular simple present Mires, present participle miring, simple past and past participle mired)

1. To weigh down.

Noun

Mire (plural Mires)

1. (obsolete) An ant.

Adjectives for Mire

tenacious; puddled; lamp-reflecting; sens¬ual; foul; sucking. verbs cast into—; drag through—; plunge in—; sink in—; spatter in—; splash in—; stumble in—; struggle through—; trample in—; tread in—; wallow in—; —absorbs; —contaminates; —engulfs; —reeks; —sullies; — swallows.

Thesaurus

adhere, baygall, befoul, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmirch, besmoke, blacken, bog, bog down, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, cesspool, clay, cleave, cling, cloaca, cloaca maxima, cohere, decelerate, defile, detain, dirt, dirty, dirty up, drain, dump, dust, embroil, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap, everglade, fen, fenland, garbage dump, glade, glop, grime, gumbo, gunk, hog wallow, holm, implicate, involve, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, moor, moorland, morass, moss, muck, muck up, mud, mud flat, muddy, ooze, peat bog, quag, quagmire, quicksand, retard, salt marsh, scum, septic tank, set back, sewer, sink, sink in, slab, slacken, slime, slip, slob, slob land, slop, slosh, slough, slow down, sludge, slush, smear, smoke, smudge, snare, soil, soot, sough, splosh, squash, stick, stodge, sully, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, swill, taiga, tangle, tarnish, trap, wallow, wash

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɑɪə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmɑɪɚɹ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mýrr.

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to Middle Dutch miere (Dutch mier}}). Cognate with Old Norse maurr, Danish myre.

Translations

Noun

deep mud

Finnish: suo (fi), lieju (fi), muta (fi) French: fange (fr) f. German: Morast (de) m., Schlamm (de) m., Matsch (de) m. Greek: βούρκος (el) (voúrkos) m.

Russian: топь (ru) (top') f., трясина (ru) (trjasína) f. Scottish Gaelic: clàbar (gd) m. Spanish: barrizal (es) m., lodazal (es) m., fangal (es) m., barro (es) m., fango (es) m., cieno (es) m.

an undesirable situation

Greek: λάσπη (el) f., βούρκος (el) m., τέλμα (el) n., βόρβορος (el) m.

Anagrams

• emir, Meri, rime

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French

Noun

Mire f. (plural Mires)

1. (archaic) aim (action of aiming)
2. foresight (of rifle)
3. target (literal, figurative)
4. (television) test pattern

Etymology

From Italian mira, from mirare.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /miʁ/

Anagrams

• émir, Remi, Rémi, rime, rimé

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Galician

Verb

Mire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar

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Hungarian

Pronoun

Mire

1. onto what

Etymology

From the interrogative pronoun mi + -re

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmirɛ/
• Hyphenation: mi‧re

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Irish

Noun

Mire f.

1. insanity, dementia, madness

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɪrʲɪ/

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Italian

Noun

mire f.

1. Plural form of mira.

Anagrams

• meri, remi, rime

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Latin

Participle

mīre

1. vocative masculine singular of mīrus

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Portuguese

Verb

Mire

1. mirar.
2. mirar.
3. mirar.
4. mirar.

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Romanian

Noun

mire m.

1. bridegroom

Etymology

Substratum word

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

1. merriment, mirth, frolic

Derived terms

• gille-mirein

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Spanish

Verb

Mire (infinitive mirar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mirar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mirar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mirar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mirar.