Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - quagmire
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(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... N-COUNT: usu sing with supp 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. N-COUNT: usu sing ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Date: circa 1580 1. soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot 2. a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position ; predicament ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a soft boggy or marshy area that gives way underfoot. 2 a hazardous or awkward situation. Etymology: QUAG + MIRE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- c.1580, from obsolete quag "bog, marsh" + mire. Quag is a variant of M.E. quabbe "a marsh, bog," from O.E. *cwabba "shake, tremble." Extended sense of "difficult situation" is first recorded 1775. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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