Marsh vs Mire - What's the difference?
marsh | mire |
An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.
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
Mire is a synonym of marsh.
As nouns the difference between marsh and mire
is that marsh is an area of low, wet land, often with tall grass while mire is deep mud; moist, spongy earth.As a proper noun Marsh
is {{surname|topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone living by a {{term|marsh}}.As a verb mire is
to weigh down.marsh
English
Noun
(es)Coordinate terms
* bog * moor * swampDerived terms
* marsh deerSee also
* marshmallow * slackReferences
* Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese (in collaborazione con Oxford University Press) . Edited by Maria Cristina Bareggi. Torino: Paravia, 2003. . Online versionhere
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.