n.
  - a stretch of swampy or boggy ground. 
▸soft mud or dirt.
 ▸Ecology  a wetland area or ecosystem based on peat.
 - a state of difficulty from which it is hard to extricate oneself.
 
v.
  - cause to become stuck in mud:
 heavy trucks get mired down.
 ▸cover or spatter with mud.
 - 
(mire someone/thing in)
 involve someone or something in (a difficult situation).
 
 
  Etymology
  ME: from ON mýrr, of Gmc origin; rel. to moss.