Mired vs Submerged - What's the difference?
mired | submerged |
(mire)
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
(submerge)
underwater
below the surface of a liquid
hidden
poor, impoverished
As verbs the difference between mired and submerged
is that mired is past tense of mire while submerged is past tense of submerge.As an adjective submerged is
underwater.mired
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Verb
(head)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.
Etymology 2
Perhaps related to Middle Dutch miere (Dutch mier). Cognate with Old Norse maurr, Danish myre. All probably from (etyl)Anagrams
* ----submerged
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Jimmy was completely submerged when he was snorkeling.
