Dictionary entry

Mire (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mire, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Mired (mīrd); p. pr. & vb. n.Miring.]

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

2. To soil with mud or foul matter.

Smirched thus and mired with infamy. Shak.