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Meanings of
quagmire
in English
Portuguese
pântano
Catalan
fanguissar
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A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
slack
mire
morass
quag
Portuguese
pântano
Usage of
quagmire
in English
1
The legal
quagmire
meant a political solution was required, Mr Geddis said.
2
They came to a
quagmire
in the red clay of the road.
3
Well home remodelling might be the way out of your disorganisation
quagmire
.
4
We seem to be in a
quagmire
here; it might be helpful.
5
Again and again he struggled furiously to escape from the oozy
quagmire
.
6
Besides this, the cart had got into a
quagmire
and stuck fast.
7
The whole place is one enormous
quagmire
,
overgrown with water-plants and trees.
8
Must he tramp through a
quagmire
of dung to reach his lover?
9
What was that metaphoric
quagmire
about sleeping in tents and buying undies?
10
And yet how could Helen have dragged her into this stinking
quagmire
?
11
The song sinking further and further into a murky, sticky, messy
quagmire
.
12
But as he sought her soul's deeper recesses, he uncovered a
quagmire
.
13
Woe to the artist who falls into the
quagmire
of unbalanced intuition!
14
Conditions underfoot made good football impossible as the field turned into a
quagmire
.
15
Quite different to being propelled into the
quagmire
of a Syrian civil war.
16
Mortonridge had become a single
quagmire
,
extending from the sea to the horizon.
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quagmire
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
legal quagmire
political quagmire
deflationary quagmire
bureaucratic quagmire
become a quagmire
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Translations for
quagmire
Portuguese
pântano
Catalan
fanguissar
fanguera
zona pantanosa
fangar
Quagmire
through the time
Quagmire
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
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