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mire

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mire
a boggy or marshy area
mire [mīr]
(geology)
Wet spongy earth, as of a marsh, swamp, or bog.
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AN Ox, unable to extricate himself from the mire into which he sank, was advised to make use of a Political Pull.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
At last he came to a part of the road where the wheels sank half-way into the mire, and the more the horses pulled, the deeper sank the wheels.
Fables by Aesop View in context
She told him of the penalty of breaking the taboo of the Red One--a week of torture, living, the details of which she yammered out from her face in the mire until he realized that he was yet a tyro in knowledge of the frightfulness the human was capable of wreaking on the human.
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