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enmire

vb. To immerse in mire; to bog down.

Usage examples of "enmire".

When the green grove was clearly visible to them, even at their proper minor height, the ground had turned to black mud, which tried to enmire them.

I rested well that night, and the next day rode out full of confidence and high-minded intentions to save Britain from becoming enmired in a war which would benefit only the Saecsen in the end.

Rather than risk becoming encircled again and hopelessly enmired in a fight he could not win, Arthur chose flight.

If either of them stumbled, or became momentarily enmired, or even had to stop for some necessary reason, the seed-of-the-day would wait —apparently becalmed by a diminishing of the wind, or caught upon some obstruction — only to fly free again when they were in a position to march on.

Not the KGB, with its hundreds of thousands of agents enmired in a morass of bureaucracy so deep that most of them spent their time either duplicating the efforts of others or wastefully watching one another.

The westerners were a mixed lot, from a half-dozen states, politically enmired, commanded by a man with little large-scale experience, and already had shown poorly against the legions.

I coughed once more and sneezed, and watched long glutinous strings loop down from my mouth and nose, attaching me to the soil until, with one enmired hand, I brushed them away.

The yard was wide and covered with flagstone so the fully-laden wagons would not become enmired when it rained.