Muck vs. Mire — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Muck and Mire
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Definitions
Muck
Dirt, rubbish, or waste matter
I'll just clean the muck off the windscreen
Mire
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.
Muck
Remove manure and other dirt from a horse's stable or other animal's dwelling
I was mucking out some of the dirtiest piggeries I had ever seen
Mire
A stretch of swampy or boggy ground
Acres of land had been reduced to a mire
Muck
Spread manure on (land)
Half the farm is mucked every year
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Mire
A complicated or unpleasant situation from which it is difficult to extricate oneself
The service is sinking in the mire of its own regulations
Muck
A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
Mire
Cause to become stuck in mud
Sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down
Muck
Moist farmyard dung; manure.
Mire
An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog.
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Muck
Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
Mire
Deep slimy soil or mud.
Muck
Something filthy or disgusting.
Mire
A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation
The mire of poverty.
Muck
Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
Mire
To cause to sink or become stuck in mire.
Muck
The pile of discarded cards, as in poker
Threw his hand into the muck.
Mire
To hinder, entrap, or entangle.
Muck
To fertilize with manure or compost.
Mire
To soil with mud or mire.
Muck
To make dirty, especially with muck.
Mire
To sink or become stuck in mire.
Muck
To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).
Mire
Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
Muck
To fold (one's hand) in a card game, especially by pushing one's cards away.
Mire
An undesirable situation, a predicament.
Muck
To muck one's hand in a card game.
Mire
An ant.
Muck
Slimy mud, sludge.
The car was covered in muck from the rally race.
I need to clean the muck off my shirt.
Mire
(transitive) To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
To mire a horse or wagon
Muck
Soft (or slimy) manure.
Mire
(intransitive) To sink into mud.
Muck
Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.
What's that green muck on the floor?
Mire
To weigh down.
Muck
Grub, slop, swill
Mire
(intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
Muck
Money.
Mire
An ant.
Muck
(poker) The pile of discarded cards.
Mire
Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
He his rider from the lofty steedWould have cast down and trod in dirty mire.
Muck
Heroin.
Mire
To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
Muck
(slang) Semen.
Mire
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.
Muck
To shovel muck.
We need to muck the stable before it gets too thick.
Mire
To soil with mud or foul matter.
Smirched thus and mired with infamy.
Muck
To manure with muck.
Mire
To stick in mire.
Muck
To do a dirty job.
Mire
A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Muck
To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed.
Mire
Entrap;
Our people should not be mired in the past
Muck
To vomit.
Move out of the way, I think I'm gonna muck.
Mire
Cause to get stuck as if in a mire;
The mud mired our cart
Muck
Abbreviation of Amuck.
Mire
Be unable to move further;
The car bogged down in the sand
Muck
Dung in a moist state; manure.
Mire
Soil with mud, muck, or mire;
The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
Muck
Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
Muck
Anything filthy or vile.
Muck
Money; - in contempt.
The fatal muck we quarreled for.
Muck
The unwanted material, especially rock or soil, that must be excavated in order to reach the valuable ore; also, the unwanted material after being excavated or crushed by blasting, or after being removed to a waste pile. In the latter sense, also called a muck pile.
Muck
Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
Muck
To manure with muck.
Muck
To excavate and remove muck{5}. Often used with out, as, to muck out a round.
. . . Inco is still much more advanced than other mining companies. He says that the LKAB mine in Sweden is the closest rival. He predicts that, by 2008, Inco can reach a new productivity plateau, doubling the current mining productivity from 3,350 tonnes to 6,350 tonnes per person per year. Another aim is to triple the mine cycle rate (the time to drill, blast and muck a round) from one cycle to three complete cycles per 24 hours.
Muck
Any thick messy substance
Muck
Fecal matter of animals
Muck
Remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
Muck
Spread manure, as for fertilization
Muck
Soil with mud, muck, or mire;
The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden
