quagmire

Etymology
Recorded since 1579, from. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775.

Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier, from +.

Noun

 * 1) A swampy, soggy area of ground.
 * 2)  A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
 * 1)  A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
 * 1)  A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
 * 1)  A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.

Translations

 * Bashkir: һаҙ
 * Belarusian: бало́та, дры́гва,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, , třasovisko
 * Danish:, dynd
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, hetteikkö,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician:, aluteiro, , tremoeiro, chagorza, , sapale, foroncho,
 * Georgian: ჭაობი, ჭანჭრობი
 * German:, , Morastboden,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Irish: bogach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:,  , ,
 * Khmer: ភក់ជ្រៅ
 * Maori: powharu, wharu, oru, poharu
 * Norwegian: myr, ,
 * Old Church Slavonic: блато
 * Old East Slavic: болото
 * Ottoman Turkish: باتاق, خلاش
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: champ
 * Scottish Gaelic: boglach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бла̏то
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: močiar
 * Spanish:, , , , barrizal,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: трясови́на,
 * Urdu: دلدل
 * Walloon: bourbî, ,


 * Bulgarian: затруднено положение
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dynd, hængedynd
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, syöverit,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Norwegian: hengemyr, kvikksand
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: živi pijesak
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: закови́ка


 * Interlingua: ,
 * Korean:
 * Mandarin:
 * Volapük: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.