mires
Wet boggy lands
Mires is the plural of mire—a stretch of swampy, boggy ground, or the deep mud itself.
To mire is to sink or stick in such terrain: The truck mired in the soft earth.
Figuratively, to be mired is to be stuck or entangled in difficulty: mired in debt, mired in scandal, a project mired in bureaucracy.
Waterlogged decomposed vegetation
- sphagnumAbsorbent bog moss
- marshGrassy waterlogged lowland
- fenLow marshy ground
- moorlandOpen uncultivated upland
muskeg · waterlogged · swamp · quagmire · morass · slough · wetland · sedge
Soft, wet ground
- morassSwampy, confusing situation
- predicamentDifficult, unpleasant situation
- entanglementState of being intertwined
- complicationFactor that adds difficulty
mess · trouble · chaos · muddle · dilemma · impasse · stalemate · gridlock
peat
Waterlogged decomposed vegetation
moorland · muskeg · waterlogged · swamp · quagmire · morass · slough · wetland · sedge · tussock
quagmire
Soft, wet ground
- morassSwampy, confusing situation
- predicamentDifficult, unpleasant situation
- entanglementState of being intertwined
complication · mess · trouble · chaos · muddle · dilemma · impasse · stalemate · gridlock · deadlock
stuck
Unable to move
enmeshed · entangled · immobilized · snared · hindered · impeded · stymied · hampered · caught · embroiled
slog
Laborious persistent effort
wade · struggle · toil · squelch · slosh · drag · wallow · flounder · sink · suck
- wetlandsswamp, swamps, marsh, marshes, marshland
- Baltic natureBaltic Sea, boreal forests, bogs, pine forests, birch forests
- Moorlandsmoors, moorland, bogs, peat, heather
- Nordic Natureboreal forests, taiga, birch forests, midnight sun, aurora borealis
- peatlandspeat, bog, peat bog, sphagnum, peat moss
- watersoceans, seas, Red Sea, lakes, Black Sea
miressolid ground
Stable surface beneath
bedrock · firm ground · dry land · terra firma · rock
miresfrees
Removes from captivity
liberates · extricates · releases · unsticks · disentangles
- wallow in the mireStay immersed in squalor