miry

«miry» in Mova's school dictionary: Very muddy and boggy; full of mire (deep, sticky mud) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (miry, mirier, miriest — literary)

meaning for a pupil

(literary) Very muddy and boggy; full of mire (deep, sticky mud). tree →

sense in the lessons

A rare word in poems, old books and the Bible («He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay», Psalm 40). In stories it describes swampy, muddy paths where feet and wheels get stuck.

examples

• The cart got stuck on the miry road. tree →
• We squelched through the miry field. tree →
• The psalm says God lifted him out of the miry clay. tree →
• The miry lane was hard to walk in after the rain. tree →
• The horses struggled through the miry ground. tree →
• Toad's car splashed through a miry puddle. tree →
• A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain. tree →

note

From «mire» (deep mud, a bog) + «-y». Pronounced MY-ree. Everyday words: muddy, boggy. «Stuck in the mire» can mean stuck in a difficult situation.

In the corpora

• But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.

Trees and pragmatics

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