- mire, quagmire, quag, morass - a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
--1 is a kind of bog, peat bog
Derived forms: verb mire4, verb mire3, verb mire2
- entangle, mire - entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past"
--1 is one way to involve
Sample sentences:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- mire, bog down - cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart"
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun mire1
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire - be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand"
--3 is one way to stand still
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun mire1
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- mire, muck, mud, muck up - soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
--4 is one way to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun mire1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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