morass

1 something that catches and holds advised against becoming involved in that country's civil war, warning that escape from that morass might prove nigh impossible Synonyms entanglement, mesh(es), web, net, noose, quagmire, quicksand, snare, tanglement, toil(s), trapRelated Words knot, snarl, tangle; cat's cradle, labyrinth, maze; cobweb, spiderweb

2 spongy land saturated or partially covered with water the distracted driver had driven his car off the road and into a morass Synonyms bog, fen, marsh, marshland, mire, moor, swamp, muskeg, slough (also slew or slue), swampland, wash, wetlandRelated Words swale; quagmire; guck (or gook), muck, mud, ooze, slime, slop, sludge, slush