1. a complicated or confusing situation that is difficult to escape from
Usage: figurative
2. an area of soft wet ground; a swamp or marsh
Usage: literal

Examples

• The company found itself in a legal morass after the merger.
• Navigating the bureaucratic morass took months of paperwork.
• The budget negotiations became a morass of competing interests.
• The hiking trail led through a treacherous morass of muddy ground.
• She felt trapped in a morass of conflicting emotions.
• The old battlefield was now a morass of reeds and standing water.
• The tax code has become an impenetrable morass of regulations.