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# mire

«mire» in Mova's school dictionary: **deep, wet mud or soft ground that sucks at your feet** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (mire, mires); verb (mire, mires, mired, miring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mire is deep, wet mud or soft ground that sucks at your feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#m1)

2) To mire is to get stuck in mud, or to be held back in trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a traveller or animal sinks into the soft ground and must be pulled out

### examples

- The cart sank deep in the mire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#x1)
- Our boots were thick with mire after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#x2)
- The horse was stuck fast in the mire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.1255/)
- [And in the pit there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1049/)
- [Mine eyes shall gaze upon her; now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/MIC.108/)
- [Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.254/)
- [Can the rush shoot up without mire?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.185/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mire» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mire/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.