Crossword-Solution: QUAGMIRE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quagmire | n. | Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet. |
We have 39 clues for the answer “QUAGMIRE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| soft wet area of land | 1 answer |
| quaking bog | 1 answer |
| Serious predicament | 1 answer |
| Scrape hard to escape | 1 answer |
| Precarious predicament | 1 answer |
| Boggy ground | 5 answers |
| Highly problematic situation | 6 answers |
| Wet, spongy ground | 7 answers |
| Swampy place | 7 answers |
| hot-water | 10 answers |
| quag | 10 answers |
| BOGGY AREA OF LAND | 11 answers |
| bottomland | 11 answers |
| swampland | 11 answers |
| BAY gall | 11 answers |
| Hot water | 12 answers |
| BOGGY land | 13 answers |
| sump | 14 answers |
| Morass | 15 answers |
| Lowland | 15 answers |
| moss | 16 answers |
| STICKY situation | 16 answers |
| Fen | 19 answers |
| Sticking point | 20 answers |
| marshy land | 20 answers |
| MARSHY ground | 21 answers |
| awkward situation | 22 answers |
| Mire | 25 answers |
| BOG ___ | 25 answers |
| Mud | 25 answers |
| Slough | 26 answers |
| Marsh | 36 answers |
| Pitfall | 39 answers |
| Ooze | 43 answers |
| Swamp | 49 answers |
| Overflow | 54 answers |
| Problem | 70 answers |
| Predica-ment | 76 answers |
| Dilemma | 89 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUAGMIRE (5)
Better the dude, better the colored dandy, better even the Bowery "tough" with his affected carriage, for they at least are reaching blindly out after something better than their surroundings, striving after an ideal, and are in just so much the superiors of the foolish souls who mock them--better, even misguided efforts, than the ignoble stagnant quagmire of slouch into which we seem to be slowly descending.
That night, when our chilled feet could bear no more, we sought out a patch of raised ground a little firmer than a quagmire, and heaped up the beginnings of a fire with such brush as could be made to burn, robbing the naked thickets.
The other party now gave way in their turn, closely followed by ourselves; I was in the van, and about to stretch out my hand to seize the hindermost boy of the enemy, when, not being acquainted with the miry and difficult paths of the Nor Loch, and in my eagerness taking no heed of my footing, I plunged into a quagmire, into which I sank as far as my shoulders.
The streets being unpaved, the rain of the night before had converted them into a perfect quagmire, which the splashing water-spouts from the gables, and the filth and offal cast from the different houses, swelled in no small degree.
Presently I came to a meeting of roads, and to go straight forward it was necessary to pass through a quagmire; remembering, however, the words of my friend the beldame I went straight forward, though in so doing I was sloughed up to the knees.
Quotes with QUAGMIRE (3)
... and yet the idea is hard to accept, it's so hard to succeed in making something happen, even what's been decided on and planned out, not even the will of a god seems forceful enough to manage it, if our own will is made in its semblance. It may be, rather, that nothing is ever unmixed and the thirst for totality is never quenched, perhaps because it is a false yearning. Nothing is whole or of a single piece, everything is fractured and evenomed, veins of peace run through…
When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interest’ and ‘attention’, so long as we focus on the ‘singular moments’ and the ‘appealing details’ in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comp…
Every person you meet has been assigned to play a role in your story as you are assigned to play one in someone else’s. I often say that the people we come across can be one of the four kinds. They can be like pebbles, fountains, quagmire or bridges. Pebbles are those who you meet commonly and in abundance. They do not facilitate anything great but they help you continue walking on this journey of life. Everyone you cross in life without really connecting with them are pebble…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1972–2022).