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Mirv vs Miry - What's the difference?

mirv | miry |

As a verb mirv

is (transitive|military|slang) to attack with mirv missiles.

As an adjective miry is

relating to a mire; swampy, boggy.

mirv

English

===(en)=== (en noun)
  • (military) multiple independently-targettable reentry vehicle - the independently targettable reentry capsule for a ballistic missile's payload, typically a nuclear weapon, where the missile has multiple instances of such
  • Derived terms

    * MIRV missile

    miry

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:
  • *:Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
  • * 1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), :
  • *:summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […].
  • Synonyms

    * (like a mire) boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy

    Derived terms

    * miriness

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