transitive. To bespatter or soil with mud or mire; to defile, pollute. Also figurative. Now chiefly literary.

transitive. To make muddy.

transitive. To cover or befoul with mire.

transitive. To cover, bespatter, or befoul with mud.

transitive. ‘To encumber with dirt and mire: to bemire’ (Johnson).

transitive. To immerse in mire; also figurative.

transitive. figurative. Perhaps: to mire in something. Obsolete.

transitive. To cover, splash, plaster, or treat with mud. Occasionally with up.

transitive. To make muddy, to befoul.

transitive. To cover or splash (a person or thing) with mud; to dirty, soil. Also figurative.

transitive. To spatter or cover with mud or dirt. Cf. lute, n.2 2.

To splash or soak with slush or mud.

transitive. To cover or plaster with mud.