miry

miry
adjective
(of soil) soft and watery
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the ground was boggy under foot

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a marshy coastline

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miry roads

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wet mucky lowland

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muddy barnyard

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quaggy terrain

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the sloughy edge of the pond

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swampy bayous

Syn:
boggy, ↑marshy, ↑mucky, ↑muddy, ↑quaggy, ↑sloppy, ↑sloughy, ↑soggy, ↑squashy, ↑swampy, ↑waterlogged
Similar to: ↑wet
Derivationally related forms:
swamp (for: ↑swampy), ↑sogginess (for: ↑soggy), ↑slough (for: ↑sloughy), ↑sloppiness (for: ↑sloppy), ↑slop (for: ↑sloppy), ↑quag (for: ↑quaggy), ↑mud (for: ↑muddy), ↑muddiness (for: ↑muddy), ↑mire, ↑marsh (for: ↑marshy), ↑bog (for: ↑boggy)

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  • miry — (adj.) late 14c., from MIRE (Cf. mire) (n.) + Y (Cf. y) (2) …   Etymology dictionary

  • miry — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ very muddy or boggy …   English terms dictionary

  • miry — [mīr′ē] adj. mirier, miriest 1. full of, or having the nature of, mire; swampy 2. covered with mire; muddy …   English World dictionary

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  • miry — adjective Relating to a mire, smeared with mud. ...summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors... Syn: boggy, marshy, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy …   Wiktionary

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