Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Mire \Mire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mired}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Miring}.]
   1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix
      in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

   2. To soil with mud or foul matter.

            Smirched thus and mired with infamy.  --Shak.

Mire \Mire\, v. i.
   To stick in mire. --Shak.

Mire \Mire\, n. [AS. m[=i]re, m?re; akin to D. mier, Icel.
   maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. ?.]
   An ant. [Obs.] See {Pismire}.

Mire \Mire\, n. [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. m?rr swamp, Sw.
   myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.]
   Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. --Chaucer.

         He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down
         and trod in dirty mire.                  --Spenser.

   {Mire crow} (Zo["o]l.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov.
      Eng.]

   {Mire drum}, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]

Source : WordNet®

mire
     n : a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn:
          {quagmire}, {quag}, {morass}]
     v 1: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: {entangle}]
     2: cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart"
        [syn: {bog down}]
     3: be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand"
        [syn: {grind to a halt}, {get stuck}, {bog down}]
     4: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt
        while playing ball in the garden" [syn: {muck}, {mud}, {muck
        up}]