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.

Source : WordNet®

mired
     adj : entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties
           in which the question is involved"; "brilliant
           leadership mired in details and confusion" [syn: {involved}]