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quadmire

quadmire is the alternative form of quagmire.

Meaning of quagmire

Noun

quagmire (plural quagmires)

  1. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
    • That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers’ boots
    Synonyms:
    marsh, marshland, mire, quag
  2. (figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
    • The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.

See all 3 meanings of quagmire

Forms of quadmire

pluralquadmires

Questions about quadmire

What is quadmire the alternative form of?
Quadmire is the alternative form of quagmire.

Words near quadmire in the dictionary

  1. quadkey
  2. quadkeys
  3. quadlet
  4. quadlets
  5. quadlike
  6. quadmire
  7. quadmires
  8. quadplay
  9. quadplays
  10. quadplex
  11. quadplexes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quadmire (page history and authors); quagmire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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