Definitions For Mire

noun

  • A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  • A difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
  • Deep soft mud in water or slush
  • Thick and deep mud

verb

  • Soil with mud, muck, or mire
  • Be unable to move further
  • Cause to get stuck as if in a mire
  • Entrap

Is Mires a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
7
Words with Friends
8

The word Mire is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Mire in a Sentence

  • The troops marched onward through the muck and the mire.
  • Played on a football field that was thick with mire
  • The sight of the standard, which had emerged from the battle mangled and mired, still stirred the soldiers' hearts
  • The case has been mired in probate court for years

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