mire

Meanings

• a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
• deep soft mud in water or slush
• a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
  • "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"
  • "caught in the mire of poverty"
• entrap
  • "Our people should not be mired in the past"
• cause to get stuck as if in a mire
  • "The mud mired our cart"
• be unable to move further
• soil with mud, muck, or mire

Synonyms

bog down, entangle, get stuck, grind to a halt, morass, muck, muck up, mud, quag, quagmire, slack, slop