mire
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Is mire a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of mire?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.Examples: "to mire a horse or wagon"Synonyms: bemire, enmiretransitive
2. (intransitive) To sink into mud.intransitive
3. (transitive, figurative) To weigh down.figurativelytransitive
4. (intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.Examples: "Why had I not with charitable hand Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates, Who smirch’d thus and mired with infamy, I might have said ‘No part of it is mine; This shame derives itself from unknown loins’?"Synonyms: bemireintransitive
noun (English)
1. (rare or obsolete) An ant.Examples: ""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. […]""; "Wen I lay down behine dat log I plunk masef right een one dem aunty mire nest an bout 10 million of dem leetle devil begin to heat me."; "The ant figures in the Bestiary, which tells us that the 'mire' is mighty; toils much in summer and in soft weather; stores wood and seed, corn and grass; in winter she is not harmed: she likes wheat, but shuns barley […]"obsoleterare
Definition source: Wiktionary