Mud vs Mire - What's the difference?
mud | mire |
(video game genre, online gaming) An interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.
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 mud.
As nouns the difference between mud and mire
is that mud is a mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment while mire is deep mud; moist, spongy earth.As verbs the difference between mud and mire
is that mud is to make muddy, dirty while mire is to weigh down.As an acronym MUD
is an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.mud
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*mire
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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.