mire

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.
• noun Deep slimy soil or mud.
• noun A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation.
• intransitive verb To cause to sink or become stuck in mire.
• intransitive verb To hinder, entrap, or entangle.
• intransitive verb To soil with mud or mire.
• intransitive verb To sink or become stuck in mire.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Wet, slimy soil of some depth and of yielding consistence; deep mud.
• noun Filth.
• noun An ant. See pismire.
• To plunge and fix in mire; set or stall in mud; sink in mud or in a morass.
• To soil or daub with slimy mud or foul matter.
• To sink in mud; especially, to sink so deep as to be unable to move forward; stick in the mud.
• To wonder; admire.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete An ant.
• intransitive verb To stick in mire.
• noun Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
• noun (Zoöl.), [Prov. Eng.] the pewit, or laughing gull.
• noun [Prov. Eng.] the European bittern.
• transitive verb To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud.
• transitive verb To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; -- often used in the passive or predicate form.
• transitive verb To soil with mud or foul matter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete An ant.
• noun Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
• noun An undesirable situation, a predicament.
• verb To weigh down.
• verb Cause to become stuck in mud.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun deep soft mud in water or slush
• noun a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
• verb entrap
• verb be unable to move further
• verb cause to get stuck as if in a mire
• noun a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
• verb soil with mud, muck, or mire