Quagmire
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noun.
Land with a soft muddy surface.
noun.
A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
Soft, wet, boggy land that trembles under the foot; a marsh; a bog; a fen.
noun.
Synonyms
Slough, Bog
, etc. See
marsh
.
To entangle or sink in or as in a quagmire.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
A
swampy
,
soggy
area of
ground
.
noun.
A
perilous
, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless
tangle
; a
predicament
.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun.
a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot