Synonyms for quagmire
ˈkwægˌmaɪər, ˈkwɒg-quag·mire

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1. quagmirenoun

   A swampy, soggy area of ground.

   That quagmire regularly 'swallows' caught-up hikers' boots

   Synonyms:
   mire, marsh, quag, bog

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1. mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slacknoun

   a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

   Synonyms:
   quag, slackness, falloff, slop, slack, falling off, slack water, morass, slump, drop-off, mire

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1. quagmirenoun

   Synonyms:
   bog, fen, slough, morass, marsh, swamp

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1. quagmirenoun

   Synonyms:
   slough, swamp, marsh, morass, bog, fen

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1. List of paraphrases for "quagmire":

   morass, mire, swamp, bog, impasse, marshland, predicament, mess, rut

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How to use quagmire in a sentence?

1. President Obama:

   [A]n attempt byRussia and Iran to prop up Assad and try to pacify the population is just going to get them stuck in a quagmire. And it won’t work.

2. Charles De Gaulle:

   I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)

3. Kevin Cramer:

   When we went through thisprocess to stand up a force,one of the things we had to say over and over and over again to ourselves to be convinced was that we weren’t going to create a big bureaucratic quagmire that the other services have created for themselves over decades or centuries, in some cases.

4. Henrik Ibsen:

   Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

5. Bonifacio Rodriguez Correa:

   I cry because Im happy, i have a lot of faith, a lot of confidence that hell get us out of this quagmire. Hes a man who does what he says.