Synonyms for mired
mired

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1. involved, miredadjective

   entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

   "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"

   Synonyms:
   involved, knotty, convoluted, tortuous, tangled

   Antonyms:
   unencumbered

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1. List of paraphrases for "mired":

   steeped, engulfed, plunged, stuck, embroiled, immersed

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1. Pope Francis:

   We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, with no way out, while others have not the faintest idea of what to do with their possessions, vainly showing off their supposed superiority and leaving behind them so much waste which, if it were the case everywhere, would destroy the planet.

2. Gregory Cheadle , of California:

   President Trump is a rich guy who is mired in white privilege to the extreme, republicans are too sheepish to call him out on anything and they are afraid of losing their positions and losing any power themselves.

3. Chang Chengwei:

   The fear is that the stock market could be mired in prolonged bearishness, something that could last for years.

4. Michael Shermer:

   It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

5. Melissa Blakeman:

   Activities like exercise and meditation are definitely helpful in keeping a positive attitude but they also help you think more clearly, when those habits fall by the wayside, I personally can tell that I get more mired in the details and I have a harder time finding a path through life's daily frustrations.