Quagmire

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Land with a soft muddy surface.
  • n. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    peat bog    bog   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    slough    fen    marsh    morass    bog    swamp    Mars    land    quag    mire   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    morass    quicksand    mire    bog    canebrake    marshland    murk    swamp    muskeg    ooze