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单词 bemire
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Definition of bemire in English:

bemire

verb bɪˈmʌɪəbəˈmaɪ(ə)r
[with object]archaic
  • 1Cover or stain with mud.

    his shoes were bemired from travelling on foot
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The rain descended harder than ever, and he took refuge in the arched doorway of the village church, his boots already bemired, his great coat reeking with the downpour.
    • His clothes were somewhat torn and much bemired.
    • In their intense concentration, they neither move nor whimper while their brown fur, wet and bemired with hunting, appears all of one color with the earth like two animate objects formed from the flinty Pennsylvania soil.
    • I am glad to see you, my dear children; you are very hungry and weary; and my poor Peter, thou art horribly bemired; come in and let me clean thee.
    Synonyms
    make muddy, cake with dirt, cake with mud, dirty, soil, begrime, grime, mire, spatter, bespatter
    1. 1.1be bemired Be stuck in mud.
      better that than have men and horses and wagons all bemired
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We unloaded our horses and crossed the property on our shoulders there being not more than 2 feet [of] water, but we sunk up to our middle in mud, the horses bemired themselves in crossing and it was with difficulty we got them over the banks being bogs as also the bed of the river.
      • I saw your horse bemired, and put him from his agony.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from be- (expressing transitivity) + mire.

Rhymes

acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah
 
 

Definition of bemire in US English:

bemire

verbbəˈmaɪ(ə)rbəˈmī(ə)r
[with object]archaic
  • 1Cover or stain with mud.

    his shoes were bemired, as if he had been traveling on foot
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am glad to see you, my dear children; you are very hungry and weary; and my poor Peter, thou art horribly bemired; come in and let me clean thee.
    • His clothes were somewhat torn and much bemired.
    • The rain descended harder than ever, and he took refuge in the arched doorway of the village church, his boots already bemired, his great coat reeking with the downpour.
    • In their intense concentration, they neither move nor whimper while their brown fur, wet and bemired with hunting, appears all of one color with the earth like two animate objects formed from the flinty Pennsylvania soil.
    Synonyms
    make muddy, cake with dirt, cake with mud, dirty, soil, begrime, grime, mire, spatter, bespatter
    1. 1.1be bemired Be stuck in mud.
      men and horses and wagons all bemired
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We unloaded our horses and crossed the property on our shoulders there being not more than 2 feet [of] water, but we sunk up to our middle in mud, the horses bemired themselves in crossing and it was with difficulty we got them over the banks being bogs as also the bed of the river.
      • I saw your horse bemired, and put him from his agony.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from be- (expressing transitivity) + mire.

 
 
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