Ired vs Mired - What's the difference?
ired | mired |
(ire)
(literary, poetic) Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.
To anger; to fret; to irritate.
(mire)
Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
* When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire .'' (, ''Tales from Shakespeare , Hatier, coll. « Les Classiques pour tous » n° 223, p. 51)
An undesirable situation, a predicament.
To weigh down.
To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
To soil with mud or foul matter.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between ired and mired
is that ired is past tense of ire while mired is past tense of mire.ired
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *ire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ire, yre, shortened form of . More at (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) ire, from (etyl) , (etyl) aesma'' 'anger', (etyl) ''e?ati 'it drives on').Noun
(-)Synonyms
* fury * rage * wrathVerb
(ir)References
* *Anagrams
* ----mired
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *mire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence Old English mos (English moss).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (deep mud) peatland, quagHypernyms
* (deep mud) wetlandHyponyms
* (deep mud) bog, fenDerived terms
* mire crow * mire drum * miry * in the mire * quagmireVerb
(mir)- to mire a horse or wagon
- Smirched thus and mired with infamy.