mired

Describes being stuck or entangled in a difficult situation, often involving mud, problems, or complications.

• 🇵🇹Descreve o estado de estar atolado ou preso em uma situação complicada, frequentemente envolvendo lama, problemas ou complicações. Pode indicar tanto um sentido literal de estar preso na lama quanto um sentido figurado de estar enredado em dificuldades.

1. Stuck or entangled B2 formal

   Caught or trapped in a difficult situation, as if in mud or mire.

   • The company is mired in debt after the failed investment.
   • He found himself mired in a complex legal dispute.
   • The project became mired in bureaucratic delays.

   🇵🇹Atolado

   Sinônimos: embroiledenmeshedentangledimplicatedstucktrapped

   Antônimos: freeliberatedunencumberedunstuckuntangled

• more mired comparative form
• most mired superlative form

A verb used to indicate the act of becoming stuck or entangled in mud, or figuratively, in a difficult situation or problem.

• 🇵🇹Verbo usado para indicar a ação de atolar ou se prender na lama, e, em sentido figurado, ficar preso em uma situação difícil ou problemática.

1. To entrap or cause to get stuck C1 formal

   To cause someone or something to become stuck in a difficult or unpleasant situation, as if in a bog.

   • The company was mired in debt after the failed investment.
   • He felt mired in a routine that offered no excitement.
   • The project became mired in bureaucratic delays.

   🇵🇹Atolar

   Sinônimos: bog downembroilenmeshensnareentangleimplicateinvolvesnaretangletrap

2. To be unable to move further C1 formal

   To become stuck or unable to progress, often due to obstacles or difficult conditions.

   • The car mired in the mud after the heavy rain.
   • The negotiations mired in disagreements over the contract terms.
   • The hikers mired in the swamp and had to call for help.

   🇵🇹Ficar preso

   Sinônimos: bog downentangleimmobilizesticktrap

3. To soil with mud or muck B2 formal

   To cover or dirty something with mud, muck, or other wet, sticky substances.

   • The children mired their boots in the garden after playing in the rain.
   • He mired his trousers while walking through the field.
   • The dog mired its paws in the wet soil.

   🇵🇹Lambuzar de lama

   Sinônimos: befoulbegrimebemirebesmirchdirtymuckmuck upmuddysoilsully

   Antônimos: cleanpurifyrinsewash

• mired past participle
• mired past simple
• miring present participle
• mires third person singular