to bog
- verb
- /bɔg/
- Then why bring up the possibility of bogging down?
In that way, I feel like now our relationship isn't bogged down by all that old stuff.
- In that way, I feel like now our relationship isn't bogged down by all that old stuff.
- And due to all sorts of other issues bogging them down, that was not able to happen.
- But I try not to get bogged down in that because that's not really the issue here.
- Sometimes writers get so bogged down with, Oh no, I've got to adhere to to these.
- Because there's a real value, I think, in these feeling like they're moving from bit to bit and not just getting bogged down in one bit.
- And I think sometimes we can get bogged down with what our relationship might look like from the outside and what other people might think.
- Do you think that they're bogged down about how everyone is going to steal their stuff, or do you think they're spending their energy making more cool new stuff?
- So suddenly it, whatever has been bogging you as a man or as a football fan suddenly at all starts to drift away a little bit.
Examples
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The project started to bog down because of too many conflicting opinions.
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Because there's a real value, I think, in these feeling like they're moving from bit to bit and not just getting bogged down in one bit.
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And I think sometimes we can get bogged down with what our relationship might look like from the outside and what other people might think.
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Clearly, the growth process in the East was bogging down.
Academic text (1991) -
Rather, he was trying to keep it from completely bogging down.
Blog text (18) -
These just get like bogged down with work stuff and just random stuff for the kids.
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I don't want to get bogged down too much in those details.
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In that way, I feel like now our relationship isn't bogged down by all that old stuff.
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And so often we get bogged down in our own ego needs and lose sight of deeper, other and collective needs.
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Earlier, the Falcons had to settle for a 20-yard field goal after bogging down deep in New Orleans territory.
Blog text (13)
Synonyms
To be unable to move or continue because something blocks you
To continue slowly in a way that makes time feel long
To become stuck in mud or a difficult situation
To block a pipe or passage so flow stops
To become stuck and unable to make progress because of problems
A very slow movement, often of traffic or of a project
To block a drain or road so things cannot move through it
To make moving parts stuck with dirt or glue so they stop working
To get stuck and stop making progress
To walk slowly with heavy steps, often through mud or when tired
In a bad situation that stops progress like being stuck in mud
To continue very slowly in a tiring and boring way
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A low evergreen shrub with leathery leaves that grows in bogs and produces small blue-black berries
- US
A kind of North American orchid with many white flowers on a tall leafy stem that grows in wet ground
- US
A low-growing shrub in bogs of the northwest United States with small purple flowers and pale blue-green leaves below
- Specialized
A shrub with bitter-smelling leaves and small white or purple flowers that grows in wet places
A plant that grows in very wet, soft ground like bogs and marshes and can live in poor soil
- Specialized
A plant with long stems of many small fragrant white flowers that grows in wet bogs
- Specialized
A thin evergreen shrub with small hanging pink or white flowers that grows in wet bogs
- Canadian
A flower that grows in bogs with one fragrant bright-pink bloom and wide open petals
A small evergreen shrub with thick leaves that grows in bogs and makes edible blue or black berries
An evergreen shrub that grows in northern bogs with pink or white bell-shaped flowers
- Specialized
A plant with yellow flowers that grows in marshes in the eastern United States
A small animal like a mouse that lives in wet mountain meadows in Canada and Alaska
A small mouse-like animal that lives in wet bogs and meadows in North America
How Stuck
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bog as a verb comes from the image of getting trapped in soft ground called a bog. So when a discussion or task 'bogs' it is like a car stuck in mud that cannot move forward.