All quicksand synonyms

noun quicksand

• manoeuvre — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• plot — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
• prank — a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
• stratagem — a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
• subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
• wile — a trick, artifice, or stratagem meant to fool, trap, or entice; device.
• swamp — a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation.
• marsh — Dame (Edith) Ngaio [nahy-oh] /ˈnaɪ oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1899–1982, New Zealand writer of detective novels.
• quagmire — an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog.
• bog — A bog is an area of land which is very wet and muddy.
• mire — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
• morass — a tract of low, soft, wet ground.
• fen — low land covered wholly or partially with water; boggy land; a marsh.
• marshland — a region, area, or district characterized by marshes, swamps, bogs, or the like.
• moss — Howard, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
• quag — a quagmire.
• slough — the outer layer of the skin of a snake, which is cast off periodically.
• muck — moist farmyard dung, decaying vegetable matter, etc.; manure.
• dirt — Design In Real Time
• glop — unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
• goo — a thick or sticky substance: Wash that goo off your hands.
• gunk — any sticky or greasy residue or accumulation: gunk on the oil filter.
• mud — wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river; mire.
• ooze — (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
• slime — thin, glutinous mud.
• hazard — an unavoidable danger or risk, even though often foreseeable: The job was full of hazards.
• trap — a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.
• danger — Danger is the possibility that someone may be harmed or killed.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
• peril — exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
• risk — exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance: It's not worth the risk.
• snag — a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
• entanglement — The action or fact of entangling or being entangled.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• mesh — any knit, woven, or knotted fabric of open texture.
• mousetrap — a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
• pit — the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.
• setup — Surveying. station (def 14a). a surveying instrument precisely positioned for observations from a station. a gap between the end of a chain or tape being used for a measurement and the point toward which it is laid.
• snare — one of the strings of gut or of tightly spiraled metal stretched across the skin of a snare drum.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• toil — Usually, toils. a net or series of nets in which game known to be in the area is trapped or into which game outside of the area is driven.
• web — something formed by or as if by weaving or interweaving.
• deadfall — a type of trap, used esp for catching large animals, in which a heavy weight falls to crush the prey
• allurement — fascination; charm.
• bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
• come-on — inducement; lure.
• deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.