单词 | quagmire |
释义 | quagmire —quagmiry, adj. /kwag"muyeur', kwog"-/, n. 1. an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog. 2. a situation from which extrication is very difficult: a quagmire of financial indebtedness. 3. anything soft or flabby. [1570-80; QUAG + MIRE] Syn. 2. predicament, dilemma, quandary, scrape, jam. |
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