Noun

• S: (n) mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack (a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot)
• S: (n) slop, mire (deep soft mud in water or slush) "they waded through the slop"
• S: (n) mire (a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from) "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"

Verb

• S: (v) entangle, mire (entrap) "Our people should not be mired in the past"
• S: (v) mire, bog down (cause to get stuck as if in a mire) "The mud mired our cart"
• S: (v) grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire (be unable to move further) "The car bogged down in the sand"
• S: (v) mire, muck, mud, muck up (soil with mud, muck, or mire) "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"