Synonyms:
mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slack
Meaning: a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
Usage examples
Sunk in a phraseological quagmire
Bear River was running high, and the plain between it and Sutter's Fort seemed a vast quagmire, but John Rhodes volunteered to deliver the letter.
What will posterity do in face of the rising tide of a barbarous vocabulary which, under the pretence of progress, stifles real knowledge? It will relegate the whole business to the quagmire of oblivion.