Synonyms of the word

mire

• n. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
• n. An undesirable situation, a predicament.
• v. To weigh down.
• v. To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
• v. To soil with mud or foul matter.
• n. (obsolete) An ant.

begrime

• v. (transitive) To make something dirty; to soil.

bemire

• v. To soil (or be soiled) with mud.

bog

• n. (Originally Ireland and Scotland) An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms…
• n. (figuratively) Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner…
• n. (uncountable) The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
• n. (vulgar Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand slang) A place to defecate: originally specifically…
• n. (Australia and New Zealand slang) An act or instance of defecation.
• n. (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
• v. (transitive, now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland, especially.
• v. (intransitive, now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland, especially.
• v. (intransitive, Originally vulgar Britain, now chiefly Australia) To shit, to void one's bowels.
• v. (transitive, Originally vulgar Britain, now chiefly Australia) To cover or spray with shit, to defile…
• v. (transitive, Britain, informal) To make a mess of something.
• n. (obsolete) Alternative form of bug: a bugbear, monster, or terror.
• adj. (obsolete) Bold; boastful; proud.
• n. (obsolete) Puffery, boastfulness.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To provoke, to bug.
• v. (euphemistic, slang, Britain, usually with "off") To go away.

clay

• n. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material…
• n. An earth material with ductile qualities.
• n. (tennis) A tennis court surface.
• n. (biblical) The material of the human body.
• n. (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
• n. (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
• n. (Internet, informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region.
• v. (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
• v. (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.

colly

• adj. (Britain, dialect) black as coal.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to make black, as with coal.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Soot.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A blackbird.
• n. (dated) Alternative spelling of collie.

difficulty

• n. The state of being difficult, or hard to do.
• n. An obstacle that hinders achievement of a goal.
• n. Physical danger from the environment, especially with risk of drowning.

dirty

• adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
• adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
• adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
• adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
• adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
• adj. Out of tune.
• adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
• adj. (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
• adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
• adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
• adv. In a dirty manner.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
• v. (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
• v. (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

entangle

• v. (transitive) To tangle up; to twist or interweave in such a manner as not to be easily separated.
• v. (transitive) To involve in such complications as to render extrication difficult.
• v. (transitive, figuratively), to ensnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle.
• v. (transitive) To involve in difficulties or embarrassments; to embarrass, puzzle, or distract by adverse…

grime

• n. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
• n. (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development…
• v. To begrime; to cake with dirt.

involve

• v. (archaic) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
• v. (archaic) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide.
• v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
• v. (archaic) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily;…
• v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
• v. To envelop, enfold, entangle.
• v. To engage (someone) to participate in a task.
• v. (mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of…

morass

• n. A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
• n. Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.

muck

• n. Slimy mud.
• n. Soft or slimy manure.
• n. dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
• n. Anything filthy or vile.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) money.
• v. To shovel muck.
• v. To manure with muck.
• v. To do a dirty job.
• v. (poker, colloquial) To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already…

mud

• n. A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
• n. A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
• n. (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
• n. (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
• n. (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
• n. (gay sex, slang) stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
• n. (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
• n. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
• v. (transitive) To make muddy, dirty.
• v. (transitive) To make turbid.
• v. (intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD, or multi-user dungeon.

quag

• n. (obsolete) quagmire; marsh; bog.

quagmire

• n. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
• n. (figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.
• v. (transitive) To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.

slack

• n. (uncountable) Small coal; coal dust.
• n. (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
• n. (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
• n. (countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
• adj. Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
• adj. Weak; not holding fast.
• adj. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
• adj. Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
• adj. (slang, West Indies) vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
• adv. Slackly.
• v. To slacken.
• v. (obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
• v. (followed by “off”) to procrastinate; to be lazy.
• v. (followed by “off”) to refuse to exert effort.
• v. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.

slop

• n. (now historical) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
• n. (in the plural, obsolete) Loose trousers.
• n. (uncountable) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.
• n. Scraps used as food for pigs.
• n. (dated) Human urine or excrement.
• n. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled…
• n. (chiefly plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
• v. (transitive) to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves.
• v. (transitive) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
• v. (transitive) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered…
• v. (transitive) to feed pigs.
• n. (archaic, back slang) A policeman.

soil

• n. (uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that…
• n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected…
• n. Country or territory.
• n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
• n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract…
• n. Dung; compost; manure.
• v. (transitive) To make dirty.
• v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
• v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
• v. To make invalid, to ruin.
• v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
• n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
• n. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
• n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
• v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them,…