Mire vs. Moor — What's the Difference?

A mire, peatland, or quagmire is a wetland area dominated by living peat-forming plants. Mires arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually litter from vegetation, due to water-logging and subsequent anoxia.

To make fast (a vessel, for example) by means of cables, anchors, or lines

A stretch of swampy or boggy ground

To fix in place; secure

A complicated or unpleasant situation from which it is difficult to extricate oneself

To provide with an abiding emotional attachment

Cause to become stuck in mud

To secure a vessel or aircraft with lines or anchors.

An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.

To be secured with lines or anchors

Deep slimy soil or mud.

An uncultivated area covered with low-growing vegetation and often high but poorly drained.

A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation

A member of a traditionally Muslim people of mixed Berber and Arab ancestry, now living chiefly in northwest Africa.

To cause to sink or become stuck in mire.

One of the Muslims who invaded Spain in the 8th century and established a civilization in Andalusia that lasted until the late 15th century.

To hinder, entrap, or entangle.

One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

To soil with mud or mire.

Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion.

To sink or become stuck in mire.

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.

A game preserve consisting of moorland.

An undesirable situation, a predicament.

To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.

An ant.

Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly.

(transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.

To cast anchor; to become fast.

(intransitive) To sink into mud.

One of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century

To weigh down.

Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

(intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.

Secure in or as if in a berth or dock;

An ant.

Come into or dock at a wharf;

Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.

Secure with cables or ropes;

To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; - often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned.

To soil with mud or foul matter.

To stick in mire.

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

Entrap;

Cause to get stuck as if in a mire;

Be unable to move further;

Soil with mud, muck, or mire;