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Definition of miry in English: miryadjective ˈmʌɪriˈmaɪri Very muddy or boggy. the roads were miry in winter Example sentencesExamples - And yet, turning in my trap, I saw her lingering before the door, very still, and as if meditating a flight up the miry road.
- They kept arriving by land much faster than we could come by water; every moment increased the crowd, the jostling, the mutual clinging, on that miry foothold.
- It was Havies' better knowhow that helped them to be in front in this gruelling contest played in miry conditions.
- Roads of a sort, fitfully maintained by statute-labour, existed in an arc from the Moray Firth to the central belt, but were often so primitive, rutted, or miry that they got worse as traffic increased.
- One cannot go to the mines at this time on account of the rising waters and because the routes are miry and submerged… Food is very expensive in this country.
Synonyms muddy, oozy, slushy, slimy, swampy, marshy, boggy, fenny, watery, sodden, sopping, saturated, squelchy, waterlogged, soggy, soft, heavy mucky, dirty, filthy rare quaggy
Rhymes diary, enquiry, expiry, fiery, friary, inquiry, priory, spiry, wiry Definition of miry in US English: miryadjectiveˈmīrēˈmaɪri Very muddy or boggy. the roads were miry in winter Example sentencesExamples - They kept arriving by land much faster than we could come by water; every moment increased the crowd, the jostling, the mutual clinging, on that miry foothold.
- And yet, turning in my trap, I saw her lingering before the door, very still, and as if meditating a flight up the miry road.
- It was Havies' better knowhow that helped them to be in front in this gruelling contest played in miry conditions.
- One cannot go to the mines at this time on account of the rising waters and because the routes are miry and submerged… Food is very expensive in this country.
- Roads of a sort, fitfully maintained by statute-labour, existed in an arc from the Moray Firth to the central belt, but were often so primitive, rutted, or miry that they got worse as traffic increased.
Synonyms muddy, oozy, slushy, slimy, swampy, marshy, boggy, fenny, watery, sodden, sopping, saturated, squelchy, waterlogged, soggy, soft, heavy |