0 to be involved in a difficult situation, especially for a long period of time:
The peace talks are mired in bureaucracy.
Some chapters remain mired in highly technical language, while others fail to transcend the limited social, cultural contexts of their studies.
Far from being mired in self-interest, merchants, these writers affirmed, dedicated themselves to the public good.
No doubt the novel's title suggested yet another sensational, occult-inspired text mired in an ambiguous aestheticism bordering on the prurient.
The proliferation of gangs fills an important void for alienated youth mired in disintegrated social and family frameworks.
The euthanasia debate in particular seems to have become mired in rhetoric and stalled by all-too-familiar arguments.
Questions of honesty and allocation of credit do not arise in isolation but are mired in a real-world tangle of relationships, hierarchy, and uncertain consequences.
Sadly, much of the literature discussing the principle is mired in forbidding algebra, which has not helped in communicating its importance.
The result with the blackbody radiators showed a close relation between the mired scale and the group parameter.
