🌱 Wet ground 🐢 To slow down 🚗 To get stuck

to bog

1 5.8

To get stuck in soft, wet ground

verb
/bɔɡ/

: atascarse

The negotiations got bogged down due to disagreements over the budget.

However, Munker's campaign against the Song dynasty became bogged down in sieges, mud, and rain in Sichuan province.

Examples

As talks began to bog down again, governments in both countries changed again.
All of that stuff would play into just kind of bogging down.
A lot of us get bogged down by e-mail, right?
And so people get very bogged down on trying to match those things.
Don't sort of get too bogged down in your feelings.
And we don't want to get bogged down in a lot of individual examples.
I'm kind of going through this quickly, but I don't want to get bogged down by too much of the details.
And I think people get way too bogged down in the, oh, I made these mistakes earlier, way too bogged down and overestimate the cost of that.
However, Munker's campaign against the Song dynasty became bogged down in sieges, mud, and rain in Sichuan province.

Kings and Generals
She felt like she was getting bogged down by too many responsibilities at work.

Synonyms

to bogged down

vsto bog

Informal

21 5.8

To become stuck and unable to make progress because of problems

focuses on literal sinking or difficult movement in wet ground

to bog down

vsto bog

5 5.8

To get stuck and stop making progress

refers specifically to getting stuck in soft wet ground rather than complexity

to slog

vsto bog

1 5.3

To walk slowly with heavy steps, often through mud or when tired

describes sinking or being stuck in wet ground rather than tired walking

to sog

vsto bog

9.5

To move slowly through wet or muddy ground

means becoming stuck rather than just moving slowly through mud

Antonyms

to unstick

1 3.9

To come away from something it was stuck to

Phrasal Verbs

to bog down

5 5.8

To get stuck and stop making progress

Compounds

peat bog

1 6.3

A wet, spongy area of land made of dead plants used as fuel

bog asphodel

9.9

A plant with bright yellow flowers that grows in wet bogs

bog aster

9.9

A North American plant that grows in bogs and has pale purple or white flowers

bog bilberry

9.3

A low evergreen shrub with leathery leaves that grows in bogs and produces small blue-black berries

bog candles

9.9

A kind of North American orchid with many white flowers on a tall leafy stem that grows in wet ground

bog hemp

9.9

A tall plant that grows in wet places like a nettle but does not sting

bog kalmia

9.9

A low-growing shrub in bogs of the northwest United States with small purple flowers and pale blue-green leaves below

bog laurel

9.9

A small evergreen shrub that grows in bogs with pale leaves and purple flowers

bog moss

Specialized

8.4

A soft pale moss that grows in very wet ground and helps make peat

bog myrtle

Specialized

9.9

A shrub with bitter-smelling leaves and small white or purple flowers that grows in wet places

bog pimpernel

9.9

A small creeping plant with delicate pink flowers that grows in wet ground

bog plant

6.2

A plant that grows in very wet, soft ground like bogs and marshes and can live in poor soil

bog rein orchid

Specialized

9.9

A plant with long stems of many small fragrant white flowers that grows in wet bogs

bog rhubarb

9.9

A small plant with broad leaves and pale pink flowers that grows in wet places

bog rosemary

Specialized

9.9

A thin evergreen shrub with small hanging pink or white flowers that grows in wet bogs

bog rose

Canadian

9.9

A flower that grows in bogs with one fragrant bright-pink bloom and wide open petals

bog soil

Specialized

7.4

Soil that forms in bogs, very wet and made of dead plants

bog spavin

Specialized

9.9

A swelling at the back leg joint of a horse caused by fluid

bog star

9.9

A small plant with white star-shaped flowers that grows in wet places

bog whortleberry

9.9

A small evergreen shrub with thick leaves that grows in bogs and makes edible blue or black berries

common bog rosemary

9.9

An evergreen shrub that grows in northern bogs with pink or white bell-shaped flowers

American bog asphodel

Specialized

9.9

A plant with yellow flowers that grows in marshes in the eastern United States

European bog asphodel

9.9

A plant with yellow flowers that grows in wet bogs in western Europe

northern bog lemming

9.9

A small animal like a mouse that lives in wet mountain meadows in Canada and Alaska

southern bog lemming

9.9

A small mouse-like animal that lives in wet bogs and meadows in North America

How Stuck

to sink

258 1.0

to bog

1 5.8

to get stuck

180 2.2

Surface Forms

bog infinitive

bogged past

bogged past participle

bogging present participle

bogs third person singular

Etymology

Bog as a verb comes from an Irish or Scottish word bogach meaning 'soft' or 'soft ground'. So to bog down in mud is to become stuck in wet, soft earth and unable to go on.