Quicksand vs. Swamp: What's the Difference?

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.

An area of low-lying land that is frequently flooded, especially one dominated by woody plants.

Often quicksands A place or situation into which entry can be swift and sudden but from which extrication can be difficult or impossible

A lowland region saturated with water.

Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.

A situation or place fraught with difficulties and imponderables

Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically

To drench in or cover with or as if with water.

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.

To inundate or burden; overwhelm

A treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy

(Nautical) To fill (a ship or boat) with water to the point of sinking it.

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

To become full of water or sink.

A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.

(figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

To drench or fill with water.

(figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.

(figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

To plunge or sink into a swamp.

To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

A situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables;

Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged;

Fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;