n. A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Soft, wet, boggy land that trembles under the foot; a marsh; a bog; a fen.
n.Synonyms Slough, Bog, etc. See marsh.
To entangle or sink in or as in a quagmire.
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n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Word Usage
"To call recent storylines a quagmire would cause me to go look up ‘quagmire‘ and make sure I’m using it correctly “a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position”, yeah he’s had a few of those."