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- verb To immerse in
mire ; tobog down .
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Examples
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The problem is that the people voting for him effectively are NOT sane, given that they've chosen to enmire themselves in bigotry, ignorance, spoon-fed opinions, and the hate and bitterness that gets them through the day by imagining all those other people falling for real change.
Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch: In Which McCain Is Not Greeted as a Liberator 2008
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"Beware how much deeper you enmire yourself in the morass of your evil.
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Virginia that dared venture his neck, the commons of Virginia would enmire themselves as deep in rebellion as ever they did in Bacon's time. "
Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker 1922
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