Vocabulary
Quagmire
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- These included the situation in South Asia, the Middle East quagmire, climate change, terrorism, as well as Islamophobia.
- The least that should be expected from New Delhi is to not further drag Pakistan into this quagmire and blame it for India`s own failures.
- There could be compelling factors at play in the quagmire, not least the corruption cases slapped by US agencies on tycoon Gautam Adani, in whose plane Modi had arrived in Delhi to take the oath of office in 2014.
- Perhaps Pakistan will find a clearer path out of the Iran quagmire by returning to the basics and putting human safety and dignity first.
- Not only because of its unpredictable outcome but also because it could mire the US in classic `mission creep` and eventually even in a quagmire with no easy way out.
Synonyms
swamp, morass, bog, peat bog, marsh, mire, quag, marshland, fen
Antonyms
agreement, solution, advantage
Curator example
“torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire”
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