mire

«mire» in Mova's school dictionary: deep, wet mud or soft ground that sucks at your feet — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (mire, mires); verb (mire, mires, mired, miring)

meaning for a pupil

1) Mire is deep, wet mud or soft ground that sucks at your feet. tree →

2) To mire is to get stuck in mud, or to be held back in trouble. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a traveller or animal sinks into the soft ground and must be pulled out

examples

• The cart sank deep in the mire. tree →
• Our boots were thick with mire after the rain. tree →
• The horse was stuck fast in the mire. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.
• And in the pit there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
• Mine eyes shall gaze upon her; now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.'
• Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
• Can the rush shoot up without mire?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mire» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.