bemire

Etymology

From Middle English *bemyren (possibly attested in Middle English bemyred), equivalent to be- (“all over”) + mire.

verb

1. (archaic) To soil with mud or a similar substance.
   The Minde, constrain’d the Bodies want to feele, Makes Salves of Earth the Bodies hurt to heale, 1603, John Davies, The Discovery of the Little World, with the Government Thereof, Oxford, page 118
   Ah me! while I fond wretch indulge my Dreams, 1684, “The Second Eclogue”, in Nahum Tate, transl., edited by John Dryden, Miscellany Poems, London: Jacob Tonson, page 13
2. (archaic) To immerse or trap in mire.
   True, there are by the direction of the Law-giver, certain good and subs[tantial] Steps, placed even through the very midst of this Slough; but at such a time as this place doth much spue out [its filth] as it doth against change of weather, these steps are hardly seen; or if they be, Men through the diziness of their heads, step besides; and then they are bemired to purpose, notwithstanding the steps be there […] 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, London: Nath. Ponder, pages 13–14
   In two of the morasses there was not depth sufficient to have bemired an animal of such magnitude and strength […] 1802, Rembrandt Peale, Account of the Skeleton of the Mammoth, a Non-Descript Carnivorous Animal of Immense Size Found in America, London, page 38
   I saw your horse bemired, and put him from his agony; which, by my sooth! an ye had been a more merciful rider, ye had done yourself. 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow, Book I, Chapter 2
   Likely the stage-coach is bemired. The roads at this season of the year are none too good. 1912, Alice C. Thompson, The Good Old Days: A Comedy in One Act, Philadelphia: Penn Publishing, page 9
3. (figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.