まみれ

covered in, covered with, smeared with, stained with, drenched in, mired in

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Structure

[noun] + まみれ [noun] + まみれ + の + [noun] [noun] + まみれ + になる

Description

まみれ goes straight after a noun and means "covered in" it: smeared or soaked all over with something messy – blood, mud, sweat, oil, dust. It behaves like a noun, so it takes の before another noun and だ or です at the end of a sentence.

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A child came home covered in mud.

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His hands were covered in blood.

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After the match the players were caked in mud.

Before a noun it is always の, never な.

× 泥まみれな服 → 泥まみれの服

まみれ or だらけ

covers more ground. まみれ is for a liquid or powder spread over a surface; だらけ is for that too, and also for separate things scattered over or through something: mistakes, scratches, rubbish.

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My face is dripping with sweat.

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This report is full of mistakes.

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The cat was covered in scratches.

× 間違いまみれ → 間違いだらけ
× 傷まみれ → 傷だらけ

Figurative uses

Debt and corruption also cover a person, figuratively: しゃっきん借金まみれ is "up to the neck in debt".

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I want to get out of a life buried in debt.

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I'm sick of politics mired in corruption.

The verb behind the suffix is まみれる, "to be smeared", used with に: どろ泥にまみれる. Both are almost always written in kana.

Examples

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I saw children playing, covered in mud.

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A man covered in blood was taken to the hospital.

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I put the sweat-soaked shirt in the washing machine.

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I spent hours cleaning the dust-covered room.

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After the match, the players were covered in mud.

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He is drowning in debt and struggling with monthly payments.

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I washed the work clothes covered in paint.

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Please don't touch the door with oil-covered hands.

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I'm sick of politics mired in corruption.

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I carefully wiped off the camera that was covered in sand.

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The soldier who returned from the battlefield was covered in blood.

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Even though I was drenched in sweat, I kept running to the end.

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