quagmire

• Nom désignant un terrain mou et marécageux qui s'enfonce sous les pas, ou, au sens figuré, une situation difficile, périlleuse ou sans issue.

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.

   terrain bourbeux

   • 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.

   Synonymesbogfenmarshmiremorassquagsloughswamp

2. C1formal

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

   situation inextricable

   • 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.

   Synonymesdilemmaimbrogliomessmiremorasspredicamentquandaryquicksandswamptangle

   Antonymesadvantageclarityeaseresolutionsolution