bemire

verb3

1. •
   (figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

   • "We have to stop him at any cost. That is the way our Cause gets bemired. Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of the honest mediums get discounted." — 1925
2. •
   (no longer used) To soil with mud or a similar substance.

   • The Minde, constrain’d the Bodies want to feele, Makes Salves of Earth the Bodies hurt to heale, Which doe the Mind bemire with thoughts vnfitt — 1603
3. •
   (no longer used) To immerse or trap in mire.

   • In two of the morasses there was not depth sufficient to have bemired an animal of such magnitude and strength […] — 1802