quagmire
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quag·mire
(kwăg'mīr', kwŏg'-) 
n.
n.
- Land with a soft muddy surface.
- A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.
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quagmire
noun
- 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.
- 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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quagmire
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Definition: bad situation
Antonyms: blessing, solution, success
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categories related to 'quagmire'
- Plains and Marshes - quagmire: marsh, bog; wet ground with difficult footing; quag
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Quagmire may refer to:
- Water infused earth or a bog. Solid ground may turn to quagmire following substantial rainfall.
- By extension, a situation that is difficult to get out of.
- A tactical defense made when defending a territory close to a river. Defenders would dig channels for the river to run in & turn the land into a quagmire.
Fictional characters
- Big Blue, a legendary sea monster from the X-Files episode Quagmire
- Glenn Quagmire, a character from the animated television sitcom Family Guy
- Quagmire (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Quagmire family, a principal family in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by American author Lemony Snicket
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, skill in the game Ragnarok Online used by Wizards
- Quagmire, a 1993 shareware puzzle platformer for Mac designed by Tony Small
Other
- The Quagmire, a figurative name of the Vietnam War
- 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, 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
- Bucky Quagmire, Canadian based singer songwriter
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Quagmire
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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