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mired

/ˈmaɪəd/

/ˈmaɪrd/

miredpast participle

/ˈmaɪəd/

/ˈmaɪɚd/

Used as a past-participle adjective meaning ‘stuck, entangled, involved’.

Translations

погрязший

The company is mired in debt.

Компания погрязшая в долгах.

запутанный

The project became mired in bureaucratic red tape.

Проект стал запутанным в бюрократической волоките.

Definitions

Involved in a difficult situation from which it is hard to extricate oneself.

The company was mired in financial difficulties, struggling to stay afloat.

Stuck or entangled in something, especially mud or a similar substance.

The car was mired in the thick mud after the heavy rainstorm.

Synonyms

bogged down

mireverb

mired

Past Simple

mired

Past Simple

mired

Past Participle

miring

Gerund

/ˈmaɪə/

/ˈmaɪr/

Translations

Additional translations

успокаивать

миротворить

утихомиривать

Definitions

To cause to become stuck in mud or a difficult situation.

The heavy rains mired the vehicles in the muddy field.

To involve or entangle in difficulties or a complicated situation.

The company was mired in legal disputes for years.

To sink or become stuck as in soft, wet ground or in a difficult situation.

The wheels mired in the soggy soil after the storm.

Synonyms

mirenoun

Definitions

A stretch of swampy or boggy ground.

The hikers found themselves stuck in a mire, unable to move forward.

A situation or state of difficulty, distress, or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself.

The company found itself in a financial mire after the failed merger.