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"1": "en",
"2": "quag",
"3": "mire"
},
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"name": "af"
},
{
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"1": "en",
"2": "quakemire"
},
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},
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"etymology_text": "Recorded since 1579, from quag + mire. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775.\nAlternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier quakemire, from quake + mire.",
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{
"form": "quagmires",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A swampy, soggy area of ground."
],
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[
"swampy",
"swampy"
],
[
"soggy",
"soggy"
],
[
"ground",
"ground"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "marsh"
},
{
"word": "marshland"
},
{
"word": "mire"
},
{
"word": "quag"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ba",
"lang": "Bashkir",
"roman": "haź",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "һаҙ"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "balóta",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "бало́та"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "drýhva",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дры́гва"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "báhna",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "ба́гна"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "tresávište",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "треса́вище"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "močur",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мочур"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pantà"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "沼澤"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhǎozé",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "沼泽"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bažina"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "močál"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "třasovisko"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "sump"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dynd"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "nl",
"english": "land",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "moeras"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "hete"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "hetteikkö"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "jorpakko"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bourbier"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "marais"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "marécage"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "groto"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "aluteiro"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lamazal"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tremoeiro"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "chagorza"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "toleiro"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sapale"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "foroncho"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bulleiro"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "č̣aobi",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "ჭაობი"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "č̣anč̣robi",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "ჭანჭრობი"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sumpf"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Morast"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Morastboden"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sumpfboden"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "váltos",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "βάλτος"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "daldal",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "दलदल"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bogach"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pantano"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"alt": "ぬかるみ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nukarumi",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "泥濘"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"alt": "ぬまち",
"code": "ja",
"english": "type of a land",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "numachi",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "沼地"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"alt": "しっち",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shitchi",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "湿地"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "doronuma",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "泥沼"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "pʰʊək crɨv",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "ភក់ជ្រៅ"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "powharu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "wharu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "oru"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "poharu"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "myr"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sump"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "cu",
"lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
"roman": "blato",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "блато"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "orv",
"lang": "Old East Slavic",
"roman": "boloto",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "болото"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "batak",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "باتاق"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "hılaş",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "خلاش"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "bâtlâq",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "باتلاق"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xalâb",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "خلاب"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "bagno"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "trzęsawisko"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "błoto"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pântano"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "charco"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "brejo"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "paul"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mlaștină"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bolóto",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "боло́то"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "topʹ",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "топь"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "trjasína",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "тряси́на"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "champ"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "boglach"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "močvara"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"neuter"
],
"word": "бла̏то"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"neuter"
],
"word": "blȁto"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "močiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pantano"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ciénaga"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tremedal"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cenagal"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "barrizal"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lamedal"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "gungfly"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "moras"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"word": "sumpmark"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "trjasovýna",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "трясови́на"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bolóto",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "боло́то"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "daldal",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "دلدل"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bourbî"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wachisse"
},
{
"_dis1": "99 1",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "swampy ground",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "maraexhe"
}
]
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"Water",
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"Earth",
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"text": "The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-01-28",
"text": "I’ve had my doubts about Daenerys’ ability to rule, inspired in part by the quagmire in Meereen. Still, this feels like a precipitous decline. The queen of sobriquets has always been power hungry.",
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{
"ref": "2021 November 24, Stephen Marche, “The Algorithm That Could Take Us Inside Shakespeare’s Mind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "The only way to know Shakespeare is through his works, and his works are textual quagmires.",
"type": "quotation"
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"A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle."
],
"id": "en-quagmire-en-noun-gasEGLLY",
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[
"perilous",
"perilous"
],
[
"mixed up",
"mixed up"
],
[
"troubled",
"troubled"
],
[
"tangle",
"tangle"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "predicament"
},
{
"word": "difficult situation"
}
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zatrudneno položenie",
"sense": "perilous, mixed up and troubled situation",
"word": "затруднено положение"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "perilous, mixed up and troubled situation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "šlamastyka"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "perilous, mixed up and troubled situation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dynd"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 96",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "perilous, mixed up and troubled situation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hængedynd"
},
{
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