English Dictionary

mire

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmaɪə/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 比喩的用法

(transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. / (intransitive) To sink into mud. / (transitive, figuratively) To weigh down.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）泥に嵌める、泥に突き落とす、泥に埋もれさせる。 / （自動詞）泥に沈む、泥にハマる。 / （他動詞・比喩的に）重く束縛する、困難な状況に陥れる。

The heavy rain could mire the delivery van in the muddy lane if the driver keeps going.

激しい雨は、運転手がそのまま進めば配送バンをぬかるみに嵌らせる可能性がある。

意味（1）

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

to mire a horse or wagon

意味（2）

(intransitive) To sink into mud.

意味（3）

(transitive, figuratively) To weigh down.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.

Why had I not with charitable hand Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates, Who smirch’d thus and mired with infamy, I might have said ‘No part of it is mine; This shame derives itself from unknown loins’?

mires （ present singular third-person ）

miring （ participle present ）

mired （ participle past ）

mired （ past ）