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quagmire Definition

quag·mire (kwagmīr′, kwäg-)

noun

  1. wet, boggy ground, yielding under the foot
  2. a difficult or inextricable position a quagmire of debts

Etymology: quag + mire

quagmire Synonyms

quagmire

n.

  1. Swamp

    marsh, bog, mire; see swamp.

  2. Dilemma

    perplexity, entanglement, quandary, morass; see difficulty 1, 2, predicament.

quagmire Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • mud: Both directions have given at best a handful of gems in a quagmire of mud.
  • pitch: In freezing cold weather on a very small, badly sloping quagmire of a pitch both teams found it hard to get any rhythm.
  • uncertainty: Instead it will bog them down in a quagmire of scientific uncertainty and public questioning.
  • rule: The credit they deserve sorts through the quagmire of rules and regulations to see what you're entitled to.
  • issue: Naturally, this idea is tangled in a quagmire of issues about authorship, editing, context and reception.
  • opportunism: I must, I repeat, note with regret that both these comrades have landed in the quagmire of craven opportunism.

Possessives

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Converse of object

  • become: Aintree can dry out quickly or become a quagmire with heavy rain on watered ground.
  • create: The rules governing eligibility for international representation have created a political quagmire for several sports in Northern Ireland.
  • resemble: Our garden resembles a quagmire in the wet, but the vacuum did its job and picked up pretty much everything thrown at it.
  • remain: The terminology of ethnicity and immigration remains a quagmire of complexity and entrapment.
  • leave: Actually, when the series leaves the moral quagmire of the love story, it stands on much firmer historical ground.

Adjective modifier

  • bureaucratic: In the increasingly bureaucratic quagmire in which we live, an up to date will should be everyone's number one priority.
  • muddy: With all the rain, the ground was very soggy... it quickly degenerated into a muddy quagmire at the jumps.
  • moral: Our decline over the centuries into the moral quagmire of always following the prince of this world will continue.
  • legal: The effects of this legal quagmire on capitalism are crippling.
  • financial: Max is a producer who is stuck in a financial quagmire due to his golden touch for producing complete catastrophes.
  • political: The rules governing eligibility for international representation have created a political quagmire for several sports in Northern Ireland.

Preposition: in

post: Anyhow, CWV warrior looks at Christianity's cultural mandate and Church leadership in the postmodern relativistic quagmire in this post.

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