Filth vs Mire - What's the difference?
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Filth is a related term of mire. As nouns the difference between filth and mire is that filth is dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles while mire is .
filth English
Noun
( -)
dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles
smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution
* Tillotson
- to purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights
(British, pejorative, slang) the police
weeds growing on pasture land
- Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.
Derived terms
* filthy
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mire English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence Old English mos (English moss).
Noun
( en noun)
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.
Synonyms
* (deep mud) peatland, quag
Hypernyms
* (deep mud) wetland
Hyponyms
* (deep mud) bog, fen
Derived terms
* mire crow
* mire drum
* miry
* in the mire
* quagmire
Verb
( mir)
To weigh down.
To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
- to mire a horse or wagon
To soil with mud or foul matter.
* Shakespeare
- 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)
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