LekhoriLekhoriA perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle.
The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy.
To embroil (a person, etc.) in complexity or difficulty.
Recorded since 1579, from quag + mire. The sense “perilous, mixed up and troubled situation” has been recorded since 1775. Alternatively, the word may apparently be a variation of the earlier quakemir...
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