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mired


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mire  \Mire\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Mired};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Miring}.] 
  1.  To  cause  or  permit  to  stick  fast  in  mire;  to  plunge  or  fix 
  in  mud;  as  to  mire  a  horse  or  wagon. 
 
  2.  To  soil  with  mud  or  foul  matter. 
 
  Smirched  thus  and  mired  with  infamy.  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mired 
  adj  :  entangled  or  hindered  as  if  e.g.  in  mire;  "the  difficulties 
  in  which  the  question  is  involved";  "brilliant 
  leadership  mired  in  details  and  confusion"  [syn:  {involved}] 




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