QUAGMIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quagmire mean? 

• QUAGMIRE (noun)
  The noun QUAGMIRE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: QUAGMIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUAGMIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

mire; morass; quag; quagmire; slack

Hypernyms ("quagmire" is a kind of...):

bog; peat bog (wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel)

 Context examples 

Over the Tarn and the Garonne, through the vast quagmires of Armagnac, past the swift-flowing Losse, and so down the long valley of the Adour, there was many a long league to be crossed ere they could join themselves to that dark war-cloud which was drifting slowly southwards to the line of the snowy peaks, beyond which the banner of England had never yet been seen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)