quagmire
noun 1
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape <the party was once again facing its quadrennial quagmire: the candidate sufficiently liberal to win the nomination would be too liberal for the general election> Synonyms bind,
box,
catch-22,
corner,
dilemma,
fix,
hole,
impasse,
jackpot [chiefly West],
jam,
mire,
pickle,
quagmire,
rabbit hole,
rattrap,
spot,
sticky wicket,
swamp Related Words difficulty,
node;
hot water,
soup;
pinch,
plight,
quandary,
scrape,
trouble;
deadlock,
halt,
logjam,
stalemate,
standstill;
clutch,
crisis,
crossroad,
emergency,
exigency,
juncture,
strait 2
something that catches and holds <a protracted custody dispute that became a judicial quagmire> Synonyms entanglement,
mesh(es),
morass,
net,
noose,
quagmire,
quicksand,
snare,
tanglement,
toil(s),
trap 
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