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单词 quagmire
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quagmirenoun [ C ]

uk/ˈkwɒɡ.maɪər/us/ˈkwæɡ.maɪr/

an area of soft, wet ground that you sink into if you try to walk on it:

At the end of the game, the pitch was a real quagmire.

a difficult and dangerous situation:

Since the coup, the country has sunk deeper into a quagmire of violence and lawlessness.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Geography: wetland

  • bog
  • boggy
  • fen
  • floodplain
  • marsh
  • marshland
  • marshy
  • mire
  • morass
  • peat bog
  • quicksand
  • slough
  • swamp
  • swamp gas
  • swampland
  • swampy
  • water meadow
  • waterlogged
  • wetland

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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences

quagmirenoun [ C ]

us/ˈkwæɡˌmɑɪər, ˈkwɑɡ-/

a situation that can easily trap you so that you become involved with problems from which it is difficult to escape:

When I tried to get my tax situation straightened out with the government, I ran into a bureaucratic quagmire.
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