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Another word for miry

Adjective

  1. Of, relating to, or covered with slime

    2. See also:

    clean

  2. Covered or soiled with mud

    3. See also:

    clean

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Another word for miry

Modifier
    2. See also:

    muddy

    marshy

    dirty

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Sentence Examples

  • At last they had him consigned to a miry dungeon, and it was the king who (at the instance of the Cushite Ebed-melech) intervened for his relief, though he remained a prisoner in other quarters till the fall of Jerusalem (586 B.C.).

  • soil or souil, the miry wallowing ground of a wild boar, whence the hunting phrase " to take soil," of a beast of the chase taking to water or marshy ground.

  • miry clay and sets my feet upon a rock.

  • miry place.

  • miry pits, never to rise.

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