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# miry

«miry» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very muddy and boggy; full of mire (deep, sticky mud)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (miry, mirier, miriest — literary)

### meaning for a pupil

(literary) Very muddy and boggy; full of mire (deep, sticky mud). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A rare word in poems, old books and the Bible («He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay», Psalm 40). In stories it describes swampy, muddy paths where feet and wheels get stuck.

### examples

- The cart got stuck on the miry road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x1)
- We squelched through the miry field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x2)
- The psalm says God lifted him out of the miry clay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x3)
- The miry lane was hard to walk in after the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x4)
- The horses struggled through the miry ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x5)
- Toad's car splashed through a miry puddle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x6)
- A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/miry/#x7)

### note

From «mire» (deep mud, a bog) + «-y». Pronounced MY-ree. Everyday words: muddy, boggy. «Stuck in the mire» can mean stuck in a difficult situation.

### In the corpora

- [But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/EZK.1264/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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