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What is the noun for quagmire?

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quagmire
  1. A swampy, soggy area of ground.
  2. (figuratively) A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “She glanced down at the long marsh grass, swaying in the warm summer sun, and she imagined the plethora of wonderful organisms living in the boggy quagmire.”
      “Unfortunately, Katrina continued to stumble forward into the awkward quagmire she was creating for herself.”
quag
  1. (obsolete) quagmire; marsh; bog.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The only good thing about your garden becoming a quag is that the weeds pull up really easily.”
      “The entire region plunged into deep chaos and a nation was caught up in a deep quag, that it is still finding itself difficult to extricate from.”
      “There is a quag between us and that light, and you will walk into it up to your neck unless I take you round.”
quagmires
  1. plural of quagmire
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs and quagmires.”
      “Heavy rain turned the car parks into quagmires to such an extent that cars were banned for Saturday's official qualifying day.”
      “Unpaved roads, the great majority, could become quagmires with the passage of the first few vehicles.”
quags
  1. plural of quag
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The quags are usually very quiet with only the odd walker or birder to be seen and seem far removed from the busy spots further along the coast at Cley and Salthouse.”
      “The Ivy, Le Caprice, Le Manoir and Quags all beckoned when I returned to England.”
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