miry

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Adjective miry has 1 sense

boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
Antonym: dry (indirect, via wet)

Definitions from the Web

Miry

Definition:

Miry is an adjective that describes something covered or filled with mud, slush, or mire.

Senses:

Popular: (adjective) Relating to or resembling a swamp; marshy or boggy.
Local: (adjective) Characteristic of a specific locality or region.

Popular usage:

Example sentence 1: After the heavy rainfall, the meadow became miry, making it difficult to walk through.

Example sentence 2: The hiker got his boots stuck in the miry ground, causing him to lose balance.

Local usage:

Example sentence 1: The traditional recipe had a miry taste that was unique to the region.

Example sentence 2: The local dialect had several miry words that were not commonly spoken elsewhere.

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