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quagmire

noun

Reveal meaning and examples

Soft, boggy ground; figuratively, a difficult situation from which escape is hard.

Conflicting promises drew the committee into a quagmire of scheduling problems.

Dictionary practice example.

The search became a quagmire when each available room depended on another booking being moved first.