mire

nouns

a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

mire, morass, quag, quagmire, slack

is derived from

deep soft mud in water or slush

"they waded through the slop"

mire, slop

a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from

"the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"

mire

is a type of (narrower)

a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome

"grappling with financial difficulties"

entrap

"Our people should not be mired in the past"

entangle, mire

cause to get stuck as if in a mire

"The mud mired our cart"

bog down, mire

be unable to move further

"The car bogged down in the sand"

bog down, get stuck, grind to a halt, mire

soil with mud, muck, or mire

"The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"

mire, muck, muck up, mud