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quag⋅mire

  [kwag-mahyuhr, kwog-]
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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.
Origin:
1570–80; quag + mire

Related forms:
quagmiry, adjective

Synonyms:
2. predicament, dilemma, quandary, scrape, jam.
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quag·mire   (kwāg'mīr', kwŏg'-)   
n.  
  1. Land with a soft muddy surface.
  2. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Quagmire

Quag"mire`\, n. [Quake + mire.] Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet. "A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of access." --Palfrey.

Syn: Morass; marsh; bog; swamp; fen; slough.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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