QUAGMIRE


Meaning of QUAGMIRE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

For the U.S., the war in Vietnam was a moral and military quagmire .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But the prospect of hostage-taking opens up a new quagmire .

Constant rain turned some of the walkways into quagmires.

In early April it becomes a quagmire where people challenge their four-wheel-drives in the mud.

Indeed, the inter-connections of this penal trinity of population, capacity and conditions form the heart of the reform quagmire .

It may also distract its members from the present quagmire with legends of a storied past or promises of an ecstatic future.

Still others have found themselves trapped in a horrendous and expensive quagmire of political, emotional, financial and legal issues.

There is little more that we can do about this quagmire .

Torrential rain was quickly turning the building-site into a quagmire .

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