mire

Object

country: But the bubble burst in 1989, land and stock prices came crashing down, leaving the country mired in debt.

Converse of object

raise: Floating rescue saves mire A dramatic rescue operation has saved large sections of rare raised mire from destruction.

Adjective modifier

deep: I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Modifies a noun

• vegetation: Two hectares of raised mire vegetation now survives across the administrative boundary at Acorn Field Moss in North Merseyside.
• habitat: Blanket bog is one of two main mire habitats found in Lancashire, the other being lowland raised bog.
• community: It formerly held the only blanket mire communities in the county.

Modifying Another Word

still: At the end of the second full day, negotiations were still mired in stalemate.

Noun used with modifier

• aizoides: Open, stony flushes of M11 Carex demissa Saxifraga aizoides mire are also well-represented.
• papillosum: Additionally, there are transitions to areas of M21 Narthecium ossifragum Sphagnum papillosum valley mire.
• erecta: Other mire types frequently occur within the heathland matrix, especially M25 Molinia caerulea-Potentilla erecta mire.
• saxatilis: An additional interest is the presence of an eastern outlier of the mainly western M12 Carex saxatilis mire.
• vulgaris: The vegetation is characterized by M10 Carex dioica Pinguicula vulgaris mire.
• blanket: It formerly held the only blanket mire communities in the county.

Preposition: in

• controversy: The proposal was greeted with derision at the time, and has been mired in controversy ever since.
• scandal: Colossal fraud Once again the institutions of the EU are mired in a colossal fraud scandal.
• bureaucracy: Like every other business transaction these days, the simple matter of selling a bracelet over the television is mired in bureaucracy.
• corruption: All over the world the establishment political parties are becoming mired in corruption.
• poverty: This film asks why the Caribbean region is mired in poverty.
• confusion: By and large it failed, and the decisions it did manage to take are mired in confusion.

Followed by an intransitive particle

down: Einstein's predominately visual mode of thinking allowed him to " wonder " quite spontaneously, rather than getting mired down with fixed ideas.