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quavemire

quavemire is the obsolete 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 quavemire

pluralquavemires

Questions about quavemire

What is quavemire the obsolete form of?
Quavemire is the obsolete form of quagmire.

Words near quavemire in the dictionary

  1. quatuorvirates
  2. quauk
  3. quauks
  4. quave
  5. quaved
  6. quavemire
  7. quavemires
  8. quaver
  9. quaver rest
  10. quaver rests
  11. quavered

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quavemire (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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