mire-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: (cause to) be stuck or hampered by something

Examples:
The shooter mired his truck after spinning out of control in mud.
Coronary calcium scans are mired in controversy.
He's mired in a degrading job at a huge corporation.
This, of course, was before he mired them all in perpetual warfare.
Further controversy mired the building project.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: mire.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3

Sense Number 2: soil with muck or mire

Examples:
The child mired his shirt while playing in the garden.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4