The war quickly turned into a quagmire.
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Quagmire
//ˈkwæɡ.maɪə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "quagmire" (134 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (40)
Noun(13 words)
Related words (67)
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Translations
121 translations across 39 languages.
Bashkir
1 entries- һаҙ noun (swampy ground)
Belarusian
3 entries- ба́гна noun (swampy ground)
- бало́та noun (swampy ground)
- дры́гва noun (swampy ground)
Bulgarian
3 entries- затруднено положение noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- мочур noun (swampy ground)
- треса́вище noun (swampy ground)
Catalan
1 entries- pantà noun (swampy ground)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 沼澤 /沼泽 noun (swampy ground)
Czech
4 entries- bažina noun (swampy ground)
- močál noun (swampy ground)
- třasovisko noun (swampy ground)
- šlamastyka noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
Danish
4 entries- dynd noun (swampy ground)
- dynd noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- hængedynd noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- sump noun (swampy ground)
Dutch
3 entries- drijfzand noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- moeras noun (swampy ground)
- moeras noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
Finnish
4 entries- hete noun (swampy ground)
- hetteikkö noun (swampy ground)
- jorpakko noun (swampy ground)
- kiipeli noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
French
4 entries- bourbier noun (swampy ground)
- bourbier noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- marais noun (swampy ground)
- marécage noun (swampy ground)
Galician
4 entries- aluteiro noun (swampy ground)
- bulleiro noun (swampy ground)
- chagorza noun (swampy ground)
- foroncho noun (swampy ground)
Georgian
2 entries- ჭანჭრობი noun (swampy ground)
- ჭაობი noun (swampy ground)
German
4 entries- Morast noun (swampy ground)
- Morastboden noun (swampy ground)
- Sumpf noun (swampy ground)
- Sumpfboden noun (swampy ground)
Greek
2 entries- βάλτος noun (swampy ground)
- τέλμα noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
Hindi
1 entries- दलदल noun (swampy ground)
Hungarian
2 entries- ingovány noun (swampy ground)
- mocsár noun (swampy ground)
Irish
1 entries- bogach noun (swampy ground)
Italian
2 entries- ginepraio noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- pantano noun (swampy ground)
Japanese
4 entries- 沼地 noun (swampy ground)
- 泥沼 noun (swampy ground)
- 泥沼 noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- 泥濘 noun (swampy ground)
Khmer
1 entries- ភក់ជ្រៅ noun (swampy ground)
Māori
4 entries- oru noun (swampy ground)
- poharu noun (swampy ground)
- powharu noun (swampy ground)
- wharu noun (swampy ground)
Norwegian
4 entries- hengemyr noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- kvikksand noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- myr noun (swampy ground)
- sump noun (swampy ground)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- блато noun (swampy ground)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- болото noun (swampy ground)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- باتاق noun (swampy ground)
- خلاش noun (swampy ground)
Persian
2 entries- باتلاق noun (swampy ground)
- خلاب noun (swampy ground)
Polish
4 entries- bagno noun (swampy ground)
- bagno noun (swampy ground)
- bagno noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- błoto noun (swampy ground)
Portuguese
4 entries- brejo noun (swampy ground)
- charco noun (swampy ground)
- confusão noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- paul noun (swampy ground)
Romanian
1 entries- mlaștină noun (swampy ground)
Russian
4 entries- боло́то noun (swampy ground)
- боло́то noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- топь noun (swampy ground)
- тряси́на noun (swampy ground)
Scots
1 entries- champ noun (swampy ground)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- boglach noun (swampy ground)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- blȁto noun (swampy ground)
- močvara noun (swampy ground)
- živi pijesak noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- бла̏то noun (swampy ground)
Slovak
1 entries- močiar noun (swampy ground)
Spanish
4 entries- apuro noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- barrizal noun (swampy ground)
- cenagal noun (swampy ground)
- ciénaga noun (swampy ground)
Swedish
4 entries- gungfly noun (swampy ground)
- moras noun (swampy ground)
- sumpmark noun (swampy ground)
- träsk noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
Ukrainian
3 entries- боло́то noun (swampy ground)
- закови́ка noun (perilous, mixed up and troubled situation)
- трясови́на noun (swampy ground)
Urdu
1 entries- دلدل noun (swampy ground)
Walloon
3 entries- bourbî noun (swampy ground)
- maraexhe noun (swampy ground)
- wachisse noun (swampy ground)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The rain turned the road into a quagmire.
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The trodden ground became a quagmire...
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The enclave has become a quagmire.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.