Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mired"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mire \Mire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mired}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Miring}.]
1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix
in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
2. To soil with mud or foul matter.
Smirched thus and mired with infamy. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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