Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to mire
Participle: mired
Gerund: miring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | mire |
| you | mire |
| he;she;it | mires |
| we | mire |
| you | mire |
| they | mire |
Perfect
| I | have mired |
| you | have mired |
| he;she;it | has mired |
| we | have mired |
| you | have mired |
| they | have mired |
Past
| I | mired |
| you | mired |
| he;she;it | mired |
| we | mired |
| you | mired |
| they | mired |
Pluperfect
| I | had mired |
| you | had mired |
| he;she;it | had mired |
| we | had mired |
| you | had mired |
| they | had mired |
Future
| I | will mire |
| you | will mire |
| he;she;it | will mire |
| we | will mire |
| you | will mire |
| they | will mire |
Future Perfect
| I | will have mired |
| you | will have mired |
| he;she;it | will have mired |
| we | will have mired |
| you | will have mired |
| they | will have mired |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | mire |
| you | mire |
| he;she;it | mire |
| we | mire |
| you | mire |
| they | mire |
Perfect
| I | have mired |
| you | have mired |
| he;she;it | have mired |
| we | have mired |
| you | have mired |
| they | have mired |
Imperfect
| I | mired |
| you | mired |
| he;she;it | mired |
| we | mired |
| you | mired |
| they | mired |
Pluperfect
| I | had mired |
| you | had mired |
| he;she;it | had mired |
| we | had mired |
| you | had mired |
| they | had mired |
Conditional
Present
| I | would mire |
| you | would mire |
| he;she;it | would mire |
| we | would mire |
| you | would mire |
| they | would mire |
Perfect
| I | would have mired |
| you | would have mired |
| he;she;it | would have mired |
| we | would have mired |
| you | would have mired |
| they | would have mired |
Imperative
| you | mire |
| we | Let's mire |
| you | mire |
Verbs conjugated like 'mire'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'mire'
fire,
hire,
ire,
mere,
mike,
mime,
mine,
mirk,
mirv,
mitre,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, from O.N.
myrr "bog, swamp," cognate with O.E.
mos "bog" (see moss). The verb is first attested c.1400 in the fig. sense of "to involve in difficulties."
2. From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss). See: English '
moss'.
Sample Sentences
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to mire a horse or wagon
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Why had I not with charitable hand
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Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates,
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Who smirch’d thus and mired with infamy,
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I might have said ‘No part of it is mine;
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This shame derives itself from unknown loins’? [1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]