• n.
    ⦿a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
    lexical concept
  • caught in the mire of poverty
  • the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:mire
wn:interlingual indexili:i112735

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelmire