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What (who) is mire - definition
mire
![A variety of mire types in [[Carbajal Valley]], Argentina.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ARG-2016-Aerial-Tierra del Fuego (Ushuaia)–Valle Carbajal 01.jpg?width=200 "A variety of mire types in [[Carbajal Valley]], Argentina.")
TERRAIN WHERE PEAT HAS ACCUMULATED, EITHER FORMER (DRAINED) WETLAND OR WETLAND ACTIVELY FORMING PEAT
Peatland; Peatlands; Quagmires; Peatland restoration; Quagmire; Miring; Tropical mire
1.
You can refer to an unpleasant or difficult situation as a mire of some kind. (LITERARY)
...a mire of poverty and ignorance.
N-SING: oft N of n
2.
Mire is dirt or mud. (LITERARY)
...the muck and mire of sewers and farmyards.
N-UNCOUNT
mire
TERRAIN WHERE PEAT HAS ACCUMULATED, EITHER FORMER (DRAINED) WETLAND OR WETLAND ACTIVELY FORMING PEAT
Peatland; Peatlands; Quagmires; Peatland restoration; Quagmire; Miring; Tropical mire
n. (to be stuck) in the mire
mire
TERRAIN WHERE PEAT HAS ACCUMULATED, EITHER FORMER (DRAINED) WETLAND OR WETLAND ACTIVELY FORMING PEAT
Peatland; Peatlands; Quagmires; Peatland restoration; Quagmire; Miring; Tropical mire
I. n.
Mud, ooze, slime.
II. v. n.
Sink in mud.
Wikipedia
Mire
A mire, peatland, or quagmire is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants. Mires arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually litter from vegetation, due to water-logging and subsequent anoxia.
Examples of use of mire
1. You have seen other people who have lost who mire themselves in bitterness and self pity.
2. The euro zone appears to have become stuck in the mire of slow economic growth.
3. Japan, on the contrary, has found itself deep in the mire of international isolation.
4. residents gathering their lifelong possessions in a suitcase walking through the muck and the mire.
5. Rescuers waded waist–deep through the mire, and heavy machinery also worked to remove the mud.