mire UK /ˈmaɪə/US /ˈmaɪɚ/verb 4noun 4forms 3 verb4 •To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. •To sink into mud. •(figurative) To weigh down. •To soil with mud or foul matter. noun4 •Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.Sow ran and squall'd, While Jack he bawl'd, And Jill join'd in the choir, Dog Ball being near, Bit sow by the ear, And threw Jack into the mire. — 1810 •An undesirable situation; a predicament. •A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.Glagolev […] measured CH₄ emission from a mire in West Siberia using a static chamber method. Similar methods had been developed and tested by Nakano et al. (2006), Fig. 1. — 2015 •(no longer used, rare) An ant."Having been seriously interrupted by small brown ants or mires working in my cutting bench, digging holes down the side of my cuttings, thereby arresting the process of rooting. […]" — 1866 formsmired · miring · mires
