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Dictionary: quag·mire   (kwăg'mīr', kwŏg'-) pronunciation
 
n.
  1. Land with a soft muddy surface.
  2. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.

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noun

  1. A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water: bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quag, slough1, swamp, swampland, wetland. See dry/wet.
  2. A difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition: box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight1, predicament, scrape, soup, trouble. Informal bind, pickle, spot. See easy/hard.

 
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n

Definition: bad situation
Antonyms: blessing, solution, success


 
Wikipedia: Quagmire
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A quagmire is a type of wetland. Rhetorically, "quagmire" may refer to a predicament or situation from which it is difficult to extricate oneself.

Quagmire may also refer to:

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Fictional Characters

TV series and episodes

  • "Quagmire" (The X-Files), the 22nd episode in the 3rd season of the television drama, The X-Files
  • "Quagmire", the English title of the 12th episode in anime series Elfen Lied

Computer games

  • Quagmire, a level in the game "Banjo Tooie", sequel to the game "Banjo Kazooie"
  • Quagmire, a fictitious place in the game World of Warcraft, located in the zone Dustwallow Marsh
  • Quagmire, an arcade style game for the Macintosh system which was released in 1993 and created by Tony Small
  • Quagmire, skill in the game Ragnarok Online used by Wizards

Other meanings

  • Joshua Quagmire (or JQ), an American cartoonist, best known for Cutey Bunny
  • Quagmire, the setting for Ben Dunn's Ninja High School comics, and the title of two mini-series spun off from them
  • Quagmire in Iraq, a commonly-used term describing the immense difficulty in defining an exit strategy or victory in the Iraq War. Popularized by Dick Cheney[1].
  • Quagmire, a black enchantment from the card game Magic: The Gathering that allows creatures with the swampwalk ability to be blocked as though they did not have swampwalk
  • a bog

References

A quagmire is usually in reference to a large problem a hold back, or a block.

  1. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY

 
Translations: Quagmire
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - hængedynd

Nederlands (Dutch)
moeras (ook figuurlijk), lastig parket

Français (French)
n. - (lit, fig) bourbier

Deutsch (German)
n. - Morast, Sumpf

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βάλτος, τέλμα

Italiano (Italian)
pantano, acquitrino, palude

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pântano (m), dificuldade (f) (fig.)

Русский (Russian)
болото, дилемма

Español (Spanish)
n. - lodazal, barrial, tremedal, ciénaga

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - gungfly, moras, sumpmark, gungfly (bildl.), träsk (bildl.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
沼泽地, 无法脱身的困境

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 沼澤地, 無法脫身的困境

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 꼼짝할 수 없는 곤경, 진퇴양난

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 沼地, 湿地, 苦境, 泥沼, 窮地

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مستنقع, ورطه, وحل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ביצה, אדמת בוץ, בוץ, מצב מסוכן‬


 
 

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