difficulty vs mire

mire vs difficulty

difficulty and mire both are nouns.

difficulty is not a verb while mire is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
difficulty	Yes	No	No	No
mire	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, mire is a hyponym of difficulty; that is, mire is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than difficulty:

difficulty: the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result
mire: a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from

Other hyponyms of difficulty include effortfulness, asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, hardness, ruggedness, formidability, toughness, burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness, niceness, subtlety, inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment, problem, trouble, facer, killer, kink, pisser, booby trap, pitfall, snorter, balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment, wrinkle, bitch, plight, predicament, quandary, rattrap, pinch, fix, hole, jam, kettle of fish, mess, muddle, pickle, hard time, rough sledding, strain, stress, job, problem, situation, urinary hesitancy, wall, thorniness.

difficulty (noun)	mire (noun)
an effort that is inconvenient	a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
the quality of being almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring a great effort to achieve a positive result	a difficulty or embarrassment that is hard to extricate yourself from
	deep soft mud in water or slush

difficulty (verb)	mire (verb)
	soil with mud, muck, or mire
	be unable to move further
	cause to get stuck as if in a mire
	entrap

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