MORASS

[noun] [C usually singular] slightly literary - an area of soft wet ground in which it is easy to get stuck, or (figurative) something that is extremely complicated and difficult to deal with and makes any advance almost impossibleThe farmer's tractor had turned the lane into a morass of mud which was difficult to walk through.(figurative) The morass of rules and regulations is delaying the start of the project.(figurative) The country is caught in a morass of debt.