"quickmire" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: quickmires [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} quickmire (plural quickmires)
  1. (uncommon) A quagmire into which things easily sink, like into quicksand. Tags: uncommon
    Sense id: en-quickmire-en-noun-XWGL6ue6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "1864 (printed), \"Off the Warre in Lancashire … in the tyme of the intestine warr that was betweene the late King Charles and the Parliament\", in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volume 62, page 57",
          "text": "Yet the Cariages and Artillery could not passe at the Stakes, it was so soft with Quickmires,"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, The Hindustan Review, volumes 49-50, page 134:",
          "text": "[…] bold treatment of themes which at best turn out but quickmires.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946, Monthly Review of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, section on Border Patrol scouting the Everglades, page 8",
          "text": "I stepped over the side of the weasel to investigate and immediately sank over my waist in the quickmire and probably would have sunk completely except that I grabbed the side of the weasel [a boat] and hauled myself back. Then it dawned on us that we were in the midst of a sea of quickmire, which also accounted for the lack of animal tracks in the area. It was strange that this area of quickmire had never been reported by anyone to my knowledge, nor have I ever heard anyone say that quickmire existed in the Everglades."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, Mike Jefferies, Glitterspike Hall, page 16:",
          "text": "[…] a safe place to weather the wet seasons when the quickmires flooded.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton, Black Trillium:",
          "text": "... consigning them to death in the quickmires.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "A quagmire into which things easily sink, like into quicksand."
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        "(uncommon) A quagmire into which things easily sink, like into quicksand."
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1864 (printed), \"Off the Warre in Lancashire … in the tyme of the intestine warr that was betweene the late King Charles and the Parliament\", in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volume 62, page 57",
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          "ref": "1991, Mike Jefferies, Glitterspike Hall, page 16:",
          "text": "[…] a safe place to weather the wet seasons when the quickmires flooded.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Julian May, Andre Norton, Black Trillium:",
          "text": "... consigning them to death in the quickmires.",
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        "A quagmire into which things easily sink, like into quicksand."
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        "(uncommon) A quagmire into which things easily sink, like into quicksand."
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