Alternativa stavningar

Synonymer

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈkwɒɡ.maɪə(ɹ)/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈkwæɡ.maɪəɹ/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Definitioner

Substantiv

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

Exempel

  • That quagmire regularly 'swallows' caught-up hikers' boots
  • The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
  • Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union
  • Is there a way out of this bloody quagmire? he wondered.

Böjningsformer

Pluralquagmires

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