Wordiyoquagmire
🇬🇧 UK/'kwæ^maiә/🇺🇸 US
GREC2
Definitions
n.
A soft, boggy area of ground that sinks underfoot; a difficult or inescapable situation
沼泽地，泥潭；困境，泥坑
🧩 Root Breakdown
Root-derivedquagroot
+
mirestem
=quagmire
Common Collocations
- 1.political quagmire政治泥潭
- 2.sink into a quagmire陷入泥潭
- 3.legal quagmire法律困境
- 4.get bogged down in a quagmire深陷泥潭无法自拔
Example Sentences
- 1.
The soldiers struggled to advance through the muddy quagmire after days of rain.
- 2.
The government found itself trapped in a political quagmire with no easy way out.
- 3.
What began as a minor dispute quickly turned into a legal quagmire.