See quagmire in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water:
bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quag, slough1, swamp, swampland, wetland. See dryA difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition:
box1, corner, deep water, difficulty, dilemma, Dutch, fix, hole, hot spot, hot water, jam, plight1, predicament, scrape, soup, trouble. (Informal) bind, pickle, spot. See easy
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