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The answer MIRE has 398 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of mire in various dictionaries:
noun - a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
noun - deep soft mud in water or slush
noun - a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Bog |
| Deep mud |
| Plowing woe |
| Goo |
| Soggy ground |
| Muck |
| Oozy ground |
| Tract of wet ground |
| Partner of muck |
| Muck go-with |
| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| An area of soggy, muddy ground, it's sometimes paired with muck |
| A sticky situation, or an area of wet, soggy ground |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| a complicated or unpleasant situation from which it is difficult to extricate oneself. |
| a stretch of swampy or boggy ground. |
| to cause something to sink in deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. to cause someone or an activity to become trapped in a difficult situation: |
| an area of deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. any messy situation: |
| an unpleasant situation that is difficult to escape: |
| an area of deep, wet, sticky earth |
| cause to get stuck as if in a mire |
| be unable to move further |
| entrap |
| a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot |
| Geographic Matches |
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| Mire, Punjab, PAKISTAN |
| Mire, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES |
| Mire, Ankara, TURKEY |
| Mire, Sulawesi Tengah, INDONESIA |
| Mire, Maharashtra, INDIA |
| Mire, Namur, BELGIUM |
| Mire, Guera, CHAD |
| Mire description |
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A mire is a wetland type, dominated by living, peat-forming plants. Mires arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, due to waterlogging and subsequent anoxia. Like coral reefs, mires are unusual landforms in that they derive mostly from biological rather than physical processes, and can take on characteristic shapes and surface patterning. * There are four types of mire: bog, fen, marsh and swamp. A bog is a mire that due to its location relative to the surrounding landscape obtains most of its water from rainfall (ombrotrophic), while a fen is located on a slope, flat, or depression and gets most of its water from soil- or groundwater (minerotrophic). Thus while a bog is always acidic and nutrient-poor, a fen may be slightly acidic, neutral, or alkaline, and either nutrient-poor or nutrient-rich. Although marshes are wetlands within which vegetation is rooted in mineral soil, some marshes form shallow peat deposits: these should be considered mires. Swamps are charact |