quagmire

• Substantiv, das einen weichen, sumpfigen Boden bezeichnet, in dem man versinkt, oder im übertragenen Sinn eine schwierige, gefährliche oder ausweglose Lage.

A noun referring to a soft, boggy area of land that gives way underfoot, or figuratively, a difficult, precarious, or entrapping situation.

1. Soft muddy groundC1formal

   An area of soft, wet, muddy ground that is difficult to walk through.

   Schlammgrund

   • The hikers got stuck in a quagmire after the heavy rain.
   • The field had turned into a quagmire from the constant flooding.
   • They had to pull the car out of the quagmire with a tractor.

   Synonymebogfenmarshmiremorassquagsloughswamp

2. C1formal

   A complicated, messy, or difficult situation that is hard to escape from.

   Zwickmühle

   • The company found itself in a financial quagmire after the failed merger.
   • The political quagmire delayed any progress on the new law.
   • He tried to avoid the quagmire of office politics.

   Synonymedilemmaimbrogliomessmiremorasspredicamentquandaryquicksandswamptangle

   Antonymeadvantageclarityeaseresolutionsolution