quagmire

Land with a soft muddy surface.

A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.

To entangle or sink in or as in a quagmire.

Soft, wet, boggy land that trembles under the foot; a marsh; a bog; a fen.

Synonyms Slough, Bog, etc. See marsh.

Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.

A swampy, soggy area of ground.

A perilous, mixed up and troubled situation; a hopeless tangle; a predicament.

a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot