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.
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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