quagmire
/ˈkwæɡ.maɪɹ/ sustantivo C2En español: tremedal, tembladeral
- A swampy, soggy area of ground. · That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots
- A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle. · The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.· Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union.
Plural quagmires
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From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger.
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