transcription, транскрипция: [ kwægmaɪə(r) ]
( quagmires)
1.
A quagmire is a difficult, complicated, or unpleasant situation which is not easy to avoid or escape from.
His people had fallen further and further into a quagmire of confusion...
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2.
A quagmire is a soft, wet area of land which your feet sink into if you try to walk across it.
Rain had turned the grass into a quagmire.
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