quicksand

as inmire

as inpitfall
as inquagmire
as insnare
as intrap

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Synonyms for quicksand

noun muck, morass

More words related to quicksand

mire

noun. muck, morass

pitfall

noun. hazard, trap

pitfalls

noun. hazard, trap

quagmire

noun. bog

snare

noun. trap

Word Origin & History

c.1300, from Middle English quyk "living" (see quick (adj.)) + sond "sand" (see sand (n.)). Old English had cwecesund, but this might have meant "lively strait of water."

Example Sentences for quicksand

That green strip of willow is the edge of a quicksand where no one knows the depth.

The boys will think a quicksand has swallowed us, and no one will be sleeping there at Soledad.

In some places it seemed as bottomless as a pit of quicksand.

She had married the solid Hermie, and he had turned out to be quicksand.

You never know where you'll meet a quicksand, or a hole in the ice.

That love, too, like a quicksand, too often proves a destroyer to the weak-minded.

This island of heath, dune, and quicksand is wild and romantic.

Don't you remember that when we found the other two out, they were sent to the quicksand pit?

I was one of those who helped to throw them into the quicksand pit.

And weren't they afterward thrown into the quicksand pit to die?