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quawmire

quawmire 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 quawmire

pluralquawmires

Questions about quawmire

What is quawmire the alternative form of?
Quawmire is the alternative form of quagmire.

Words near quawmire in the dictionary

  1. quaw
  2. quawk
  3. quawked
  4. quawking
  5. quawks
  6. quawmire
  7. quawmires
  8. quaws
  9. quay
  10. Quay County
  11. quayage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quawmire (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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