quagmire

(kwăg'mīr', kwŏg'-)
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.

n

Definition: bad situation
Antonyms: blessing, solution, success

For a list of words related to quagmire, see:

• Plains and Marshes - quagmire: marsh, bog; wet ground with difficult footing; quag

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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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