0 an area of soft, wet ground that you sink into if you try to walk on it:
1 a situation that can easily trap you so that you become involved with problems from which it is difficult to escape:
When I tried to get my tax situation straightened out with the government, I ran into a bureaucratic quagmire.
A lot of people are trying to lead me into quagmires at the moment.
They see the quagmires of self-indulgence and delay.
Our chief enemy has been the weather, for two months of heavy and continual rain turned the ground into quagmires, which meant that our forces became practically roadbound.
Great stretches of those ancient green lanes are reduced to muddy quagmires in wet weather and rendered almost impassable by ruts—sometimes up to 2 ft deep even in dry weather.
Whether their ventures fall prey to the same turf wars, bureaucratic quagmires and academic catfights as the site that spawned them remains to be seen.
The competency quagmire: clarification of the nursing perspective concerning the issues of competence and informed consent.
One significant reason for this was that drivers often took shortcuts across unpaved roads, which after rains became nothing more than quagmires.
The going was difficult, because the weather had been rainy and windy, and the troops and wagons turned the roads into muddy quagmires.
