The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - miren.

1) swamp, bog, fen, marsh, quagmire, morass, slough, Brit dialect sump: The horse stumbled into the mire and began to flounder. 2) mud, ooze, muck, slime, dirt: I had to wade through muck and mire to get to your front door. --v. 3) enmire, bog down, become entangled or tangled, become enmeshed or meshed, become involved: Sorry I'm late; I got mired in a problem at the office. 4) dirty, soil, begrime, muddy, befoul, besmirch, sully, tarnish, smear, blacken, defile, smudge: My boots were badly mired. The scandal badly mired his reputation.