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Mire is a synonym of spatter.


As a noun mire

is .

As a verb spatter is

to splash with small droplets.

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)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An ant.

    • Anagrams

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    spatter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To splash with small droplets.
    • When my wet chihuahua shook himself, I was spattered with smelly water.
  • To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
    • to spatter blood
    (Alexander Pope)
  • (figurative) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

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