quagmire

Meaning of quagmire

noun
  1. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
    That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers' boots
  2. A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.
    The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.

verb

To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.

Information about quagmire

  • The plural form of quagmire is: quagmires.
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Hyphenation of quagmire

quag-mire

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • quagmire is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

quagmire synonyms

Meaning mire:

mire, quag, morass, slack

Meaning :

marsh, marshland

Words that rhyme with quagmire

mire, alamire, amire, admire, coadmire, preadmire, readmire, unadmire, Lemire, bemire, rebemire, Longmire, bogmire, Casimire, casimire, Almire, pismire, Whitmire, Frymire

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