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Mire

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1400, OED Evaluation: NA

To involve in difficulties or (originally) sinfulness from which it is difficult to withdraw; to hamper; to entrap. Formerly often: †to discomfit or confound, esp. in a dispute (obs.). Freq. in pass.

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It was a choice to come back to the farm, not that just it was ah expected of you. You-know because lots of people get- get mired in a family business like that and you feel that you have to follow along on the family footsteps and- but this was a choice that everybody had, so that's good.
To involve in difficulties or (originally) sinfulness from which it is difficult to withdraw; to hamper; to entrap. Formerly often: †to discomfit or confound, esp. in a dispute (obs.). Freq. in pass.