quagmire
Speech parts
1. quagmire - Noun
2. quagmire - Verb
Meaning
Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.
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We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire.
My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
It's a lie. I agree with the military experts who say it's a quagmire.
At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.