Crossword clues for miring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mire \Mire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mired (m[imac]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Miring.]
To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
Hence: To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; -- often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned.
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To soil with mud or foul matter.
Smirched thus and mired with infamy.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of mire English)
Usage examples of "miring".
Blood was bubbling from his chest, miring his fur, and for a moment his eyes fixed on me.
Around one of the dragon's hind feet, someone had been chiseling at the miring stone.
And the dragon had fallen before it could even rise, sinking back into the stone, miring down forever.
Around one of the dragon’s hind feet, someone had been chiseling at the miring stone.
In the soft stretches, rock and clay had been dumped, covered with gravel and leveled, to prevent miring and rutting.
Then a wave swelled beyond the boundaries of the Aventine army, turning the ground under Adept and Reader to quicksand—as their footing dissolved out from under them, their horses screamed and struggled, miring themselves.
He shifted and bumped around shouldei miring the magnificent dark walnut of the dice table, its burled maple inlay that caught the light like brushed gold what must have been several coats of buffed lacquer.
It is not well to risk miring the horses when I did dream of gold last night.