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quicksand
[ kwik-sand ]
noun
- a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
quicksand
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noun
- a deep mass of loose wet sand that submerges anything on top of it
quicksand
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- A deep bed of loose, smoothly rounded sand grains, saturated with water and forming a soft, shifting mass that yields easily to pressure and tends to engulf objects resting on its surface. Although it is possible for a person to drown while mired in quicksand, the human body is less dense than any quicksand and is thus not drawn or sucked beneath the surface as is sometimes popularly believed.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of quicksand1
Example Sentences
Newcastle could, and should, have added more as they simply over-powered a Liverpool team who looked like they were running in quicksand, this loss compounding the midweek Champions League exit against PSG on penalties.
“Being swallowed by snow as if sinking in quicksand is not intrinsic in snowboarding,†the lawsuit said.
Disney’s retrenchment comes nearly three years after it found itself sinking in political quicksand.
I was stuck in quicksand, and he helped pull me out.
Liquefaction occurs when shaking from an earthquake effectively turns the land into quicksand.
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