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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bemire .
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Examples
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When we reached the bemired bank of Lake Lanier, a bullfrog choir heralded our arrival.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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I plodded though, but with each step I became increasingly bemired.
Joe Antol: An Afternoon Boot Camp Joe Antol 2010
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When we reached the bemired bank of Lake Lanier, a bullfrog choir heralded our arrival.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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When we reached the bemired bank of Lake Lanier, a bullfrog choir heralded our arrival.
A Kettle of Vultures Sabrina Lamb 2010
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Jean Valjean, as we have just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been unrecognizable in full noonday.
Les Miserables 2008
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Gorge, that did be on her, and had made her garment utter wet and bemired, so that she did feel that her very body was a repulse unto her.
The Night Land 2007
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Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.
Ulysses 2003
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“I am glad to see you, my dear children; you are very hungry and weary; and my poor Peter, thou art horribly bemired; come in and let me clean thee.”
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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The grass, being sodden with rain, afforded the young gentleman a rather inhospitable couch; his clothes were considerably bemired; and his hat was rolling in the mud on the other side of the road.
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A poor creature is bemired; and the more he plungeth, the faster he sticks.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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