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to sog

to sog

9.5
To move slowly through wet or muddy ground
  • verb
  • /sɔg/
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  • After the heavy rain, we had to sog through the muddy field to reach the house.

Examples

  • The children sogged through the puddles, splashing water everywhere.

  • So we're covered in skin infections and bed sores and we're itchy, but we're sogging and was sweaty and stinking like wet dogs.

  • As I walked home, the grass was so wet that my shoes began to sog with mud.

Synonyms

to squelch
vsto sog
3 7.0

Make a soft, wet sucking sound, for example when you walk on mud

moves slowly without focusing on the noisy sound
to slog
vsto sog
1 5.3

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

moves slowly through wet ground due to difficulty rather than tiredness
to bog
vsto sog
  • UK
1 5.8

To get stuck in soft, wet ground

moves slowly through wet ground rather than becoming stuck
to slush
vsto sog
4.4

To move with difficulty through wet, soft ground, making splashes

moves slowly through wet ground without stressing the sound

Antonyms

73 1.0

To move very quickly to reach a place

55 2.1

A short, very fast run over a small distance

How Difficult

to bog down
5 5.8
to sog
9.5
to trudge
21 5.5
to wade
22 2.2
to walk
1.0

Surface Forms

sog infinitive
sogged past
sogged past participle
sogging present participle
sogs third person singular

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the walking sense of sog is to think of the word slog but in wet ground, where heavy, wet steps slow you down. That's why to sog across a field is to move slowly or with difficulty through mud.