highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs
wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from; "the country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president"; "caught in the mire of poverty"
soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"
cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart"