Mire vs. Moor

Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.

An undesirable situation, a predicament.

(obsolete) An ant.

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

Example: ‘to mire a horse or wagon’;

(intransitive) To sink into mud.

To weigh down.

(intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.

An ant.

Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.

Example: ‘He his rider from the lofty steedWould have cast down and trod in dirty mire.’;

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

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.

To soil with mud or foul matter.

Example: ‘Smirched thus and mired with infamy.’;

To stick in mire.

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

entrap;

Example: ‘Our people should not be mired in the past’;

cause to get stuck as if in a mire;

Example: ‘The mud mired our cart’;

be unable to move further;

Example: ‘The car bogged down in the sand’;

soil with mud, muck, or mire;

Example: ‘The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden’;

a stretch of swampy or boggy ground

Example: ‘acres of land had been reduced to a mire’;

soft mud or dirt

Example: ‘the roads retained their winter mire’;

a wetland area or ecosystem based on peat.

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

Example: ‘the service is sinking in the mire of its own regulations’;

cause to become stuck in mud

Example: ‘sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down’;

cover or spatter with mud

Example: ‘the horse waded through the red mud that mired it to its hocks’;

involve someone or something in (a difficult situation)

Example: ‘the economy is mired in its longest recession since the war’;

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.

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

Example: ‘A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.’;

a game preserve consisting of moorland

To cast anchor or become fastened.

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

Example: ‘the vessel was moored in the stream’; ‘they moored the boat to the wharf.’;

(transitive) To secure or fix firmly.

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

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

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

Example: ‘In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.’;

A game preserve consisting of moorland.

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.

Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

To cast anchor; to become fast.

Example: ‘On oozy ground his galleys moor.’;

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

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

secure in or as if in a berth or dock;

Example: ‘tie up the boat’;

come into or dock at a wharf;

Example: ‘the big ship wharfed in the evening’;

secure with cables or ropes;

Example: ‘moor the boat’;