English-Spanish translations for quagmire

  • barrizal
  • cenagalDesde que Georges Malbrunot y Christian Chesnot fueron capturados como rehenes, también Francia se ha visto arrastrada al cenagal iraquí. Since Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot were taken hostage, France has also been dragged into the quagmire in Iraq. Por lo menos 8 000 murieron, y sus cuerpos se perdieron en el ensangrentado cenagal del campo de batalla, un campo que se convirtió en una fosa común. At least 8 000 died, their bodies lost in the blood-soaked quagmire of the battlefield, a field which became a mass grave. El jefe saliente, un británico de nombre McGyver, no tuvo pelos en la lengua cuando dijo: "Estamos trabajando aquí en un cenagal de fraude y corrupción". Its outgoing leader, a Briton by the name of MacGyver, did not mince his words when he said 'We are working here in a quagmire of deceit and corruption'.
  • pantano
  • tremedal
  • apuro
  • ciénagaSi dejamos que Europa se diluya por la ampliación, nos ahogaremos en nuestra propia ciénaga política. If we allow Europe to be watered down as a result of enlargement, we will drown in our own political quagmire. De hecho, Bush padre sabía que se hundiría en una ciénaga, que la caída de Sadam Hussein comportaría confrontaciones étnicas y religiosas que no se podrían controlar desde fuera. In fact, Bush Senior knew that he would get bogged down in a quagmire, that the fall of Saddam Hussein would lead to ethnic and religious confrontations that could not be managed from outside.
  • dilema
  • lamedal

Definition of quagmire

Examples

  • That quagmire regularly ‘swallows’ caught-up hikers boots
  • The paperwork got lost in a quagmire of bureaucracy
  • Those election results are a quagmire for any coalition except one of national union

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