Mire vs Enmired - What's the difference?
mire | enmired |
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
(enmire)
Immersed in mire; bogged down.
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 318:
As verbs the difference between mire and enmired
is that mire is to weigh down while enmired is past tense of enmire.As a noun mire
is deep mud; moist, spongy earth.As an adjective enmired is
immersed in mire; bogged down.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.
Etymology 2
Perhaps related to Middle Dutch miere (Dutch mier). Cognate with Old Norse maurr, Danish myre. All probably from (etyl)Anagrams
* ----enmired
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Discipline, in fact, proved to be one of the chief attractions of Benedictine monasteries, in an age enmired in terrifying lawlessness which longed for the lost order of Roman society.