Quicksand

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A bed of loose sand mixed with water forming a soft shifting mass that yields easily to pressure and tends to engulf any object resting on its surface.
  • n. A place or situation into which entry can be swift and sudden but from which extrication can be difficult or impossible. Often used in the plural: "This theory of the future entrapped [them] in the quicksands of Vietnamā€ ( Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts
  • n. Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A movable sand-bank in a sea, lake, or river; a large mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water formed on many sea-coasts, at the mouths and in the channels of rivers, etc., sometimes dangerous to vessels, and especially to travelers.
  • To catch in a quicksand.
  • To cover with quicksands: as, a quicksanded coast.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
  • n. a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    situation    cavity    pit   
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