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Meanings of quagmire in English

Portuguese
pântano
Catalan
fanguissar

A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.

pântano
Usage of quagmire in English
1
The legal quagmire meant a political solution was required, Mr Geddis said.
Radio NZ
2
They came to a quagmire in the red clay of the road.
The Happy Foreigner
3
Well home remodelling might be the way out of your disorganisation quagmire.
The South African
4
We seem to be in a quagmire here; it might be helpful.
The bourne identity
5
Again and again he struggled furiously to escape from the oozy quagmire.
The Camp in the Snow; Or, Besieged by Danger
6
Besides this, the cart had got into a quagmire and stuck fast.
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
7
The whole place is one enormous quagmire, overgrown with water-plants and trees.
The Fairy-Land of Science
8
Must he tramp through a quagmire of dung to reach his lover?
The crimson petal and the white
9
What was that metaphoric quagmire about sleeping in tents and buying undies?
Bare Bones
10
And yet how could Helen have dragged her into this stinking quagmire?
The sealed letter
11
The song sinking further and further into a murky, sticky, messy quagmire.
The Irish Times
12
But as he sought her soul's deeper recesses, he uncovered a quagmire.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
13
Woe to the artist who falls into the quagmire of unbalanced intuition!
The Complex Vision
14
Conditions underfoot made good football impossible as the field turned into a quagmire.
The Irish Times
15
Quite different to being propelled into the quagmire of a Syrian civil war.
The Guardian
16
Mortonridge had become a single quagmire, extending from the sea to the horizon.
The Naked God
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Translations for quagmire
Portuguese
pântano
Quagmire through the time
Quagmire across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common