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MIRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does miry mean?
• MIRY (adjective)
The adjective MIRY has 1 sense:
1. (of soil) soft and watery
Familiarity information: MIRY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: miriest
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of soil) soft and watery
Synonyms:
boggy; marshy; miry; mucky; muddy; quaggy; sloppy; sloughy; soggy; squashy; swampy; waterlogged
Context example:
swampy bayous
Similar:
wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water)
Derivation:
mire (a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot)
Context examples
Right across the lower part of the bog lay a miry path.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the first outset, heavy, miry ground and a matted, marish vegetation greatly delayed our progress; but by little and little the hill began to steepen and become stony under foot, and the wood to change its character and to grow in a more open order.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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