Mire vs. Moor

Mirenoun

Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.

Mirenoun

An undesirable situation, a predicament.

Mirenoun

(obsolete) An ant.

Mireverb

(transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.

Mireverb

(intransitive) To sink into mud.

Mireverb

To weigh down.

Mireverb

(intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.

Mirenoun

An ant.

Mirenoun

Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.

Mireverb

To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

Mireverb

To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; - often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned.

Mireverb

To soil with mud or foul matter.

Mireverb

To stick in mire.

Mirenoun

a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

Mireverb

entrap;

Mireverb

cause to get stuck as if in a mire;

Mireverb

be unable to move further;

Mireverb

soil with mud, muck, or mire;

Mirenoun

a stretch of swampy or boggy ground

Mirenoun

soft mud or dirt

Mirenoun

a wetland area or ecosystem based on peat.

Mirenoun

a complicated or unpleasant situation from which it is difficult to extricate oneself

Mireverb

cause to become stuck in mud

Mireverb

cover or spatter with mud

Mireverb

involve someone or something in (a difficult situation)

Mire

A mire, peatland, or quagmire is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants. Mires arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually litter from vegetation, due to water-logging and subsequent anoxia.

Moornoun

an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath

Moornoun

a game preserve consisting of moorland

Moorverb

To cast anchor or become fastened.

Moorverb

To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like

Moorverb

(transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

Moornoun

One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

Moornoun

Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

Moornoun

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

Moornoun

A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Moorverb

To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

Moorverb

Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

Moorverb

To cast anchor; to become fast.

Moornoun

one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

Moornoun

open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

Moorverb

secure in or as if in a berth or dock;

Moorverb

come into or dock at a wharf;

Moorverb

secure with cables or ropes;