mire

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Albeit standing accountant for so great a sin, the mire was as yet alien to him But there was pertinence in the young woman's question; where was he going, indeed?

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  1. noun An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.
  2. noun Deep slimy soil or mud.
  3. noun A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty.
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muck ·  morass ·  quagmire ·  ooze ·  bog ·  mud ·  slush ·  quicksand ·  swamp ·  silt ·  weed ·  puddle
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old Norse mȳrr, bog.

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  1. from Middle English mire, myre, from Icelandic my¯rr, later my¯ri = Norwegian myre = Swedish Danish myr, a bog, swamp, = Old High German mios, Middle High German G. mies, a bog, swamp, also moss (a plant), = Anglo-Saxon meós, moss (a plant): see moss, moss.
  2. from mire, n.
  3. from Middle English mire, also mowre (not in Anglo-Saxon), from Icelandic maurr = Swedish myra = Danish myre = Dutch miere, mier = Middle Low German Low German mire (later G. miere), an ant; cf. Irish moirbh, Welsh mor(-grugyn) = Cornish murrian (plural); Old Bulgarian mravija = Servian mrav = Polish mrowka = Bohemian mravenec = Russian muraveĭ Greek μύρμηξ, μύρμος; Latin formica (?) (later F. fourmi); Persian mūr, Zend maori, ant; an ancient Indo-European designation of the insect, superseded in English by the merely Teutonic ant.
  4. from Latin mirari, wonder: see admire, mirror.
 

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