verb
- to cause to stick fast in or as if in mire; to soil with mud or mire
Usage: archaic; literary
Examples
- The heavy rains bemired the wagon wheels in the muddy road.
- His boots were bemired from walking through the swamp.
- The carriage became bemired in the thick clay after the storm.
- Don’t bemire your clean clothes by walking through that marsh.
- The horses struggled as their hooves became bemired in the bog.
- She carefully stepped around the puddles to avoid bemiring her dress.