[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mire \mire\, v. t. imp.  p. p. mired mimacrd; p. pr. 
   vb. n. miring.
   1913 webster
   1. to cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix
      in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
      1913 webster

   2. hence: to stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties;
      -- often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got
      mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer
      than planned.
      pjc

   3. to soil with mud or foul matter.
      1913 webster

            smirched thus and mired with infamy.  --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
mired miring 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mired
     adj : entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire; "the difficulties
           in which the question is involved"; "brilliant
           leadership mired in details and confusion" syn: involved
see also:
involved 

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