Definitions for quagmire

quagmire quag·mire

Spelling: [kwag-mahyuh r, kwog-]
IPA: /ˈkwægˌmaɪər, ˈkwɒg-/

Quagmire is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in quagmire (aegimqru).

Definitions for quagmire

noun

  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:
  3. anything soft or flabby.

Origin of quagmire

First recorded in 1570-80; quag + mire

Examples for quagmire

The lane was muddy even in the roadway, and on the banks it was a quagmire.

But now am I indeed fast stuck in a quagmire of uncertainty.

Four years later, he has absented himself utterly from the quagmire in which nearly 90 million Egyptians find themselves.

And the reasons for that suggest just how densely complicated the Mideast quagmire has become.

Creator David Simon meant the line to be a reference to the quagmire of the Iraq War.

The pond was a thin piece of canvas painted to represent the quagmire.

The road through Thiepval was a bog, the village was a quagmire.

Already our horses were stumbling over corpses as if in a quagmire.

In the 1980s the goal was to defeat the Soviets by creating a quagmire for the Red Army like Vietnam was for America.

Let's keep it like that, rather than sliding into a quagmire that renders it useless to the republic.

Word Value for quagmire
Scrable

20

Words with friends

23

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