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noun
1.
an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
2.
a situation from which extrication is very difficult: a quagmire of financial indebtedness.
3.
anything soft or flabby.
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Quagmire
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Example Sentences
- So it's in his interest to help those students manage their plastic wisely and avoid the quagmire of credit-card debt.
- It turned out that the road in front of Snitch's new place became a quagmire every time it rained.
- The day may come when you need them to rescue yourself from a quagmire.
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Word Origin & History
quagmire
1579, from obsolete quag "bog, marsh" + mire. Quag is a variant of M.E. quabbe "a marsh, bog," from O.E. *cwabba "shake, tremble" (like something soft and flabby). Extended sense of "difficult situation, inextricable position" is first recorded 1775.
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