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Quicksand

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Noun

1. quicksand

a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy

2. quicksand

a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Quicksand

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noun
a deep mass of loose wet sand that submerges anything on top of it

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Quicksand

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noun
a deep, semifluid deposit or bed of sand in which an animal, heavy object, etc. may be trapped or engulfed

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Quicksand

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n.
1. Sand that is mixed with water in a collected mass and yields easily to pressure so that objects on its surface tend to sink and become engulfed.
2. often quicksands A place or situation into which entry can be swift and sudden but from which extrication can be difficult or impossible: "This theory of the future entrapped [them] in the quicksands of Vietnam" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.)

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