How to pronounce“mire”in English
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Definitions of “mire”
Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
“His laden feet sand and stuck in mire; he was bedaubed with the blue-gray clay from head to foot; but he had escaped the deadly river!”
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.”
To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
“to mire a horse or wagon”
To sink into mud.
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