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View synonyms for bog down

bog down

verb

  1. adverbwhentr, often passive to impede or be impeded physically or mentally
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Become stuck, be unable to progress, as in Their research bogged down because they lacked the laboratory expertise . This expression transfers sinking into the mud of a swamp to being hampered or halted. [First half of 1900s]
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Example Sentences

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency can bog down any other agency by encumbering agency rules or policies.

If previously it had taken all his force to manœuvre himself, he felt now that he would bog down under this new weight.

But a quick survey showed that it would overheat too fast and might easily bog down in one of the many soft spots.

The day after she went into the bog to gather the bog-down for the seventh shirt.

Then she went into silence again, gathering the bog-down and spinning the thread.

She was gathering the bog-down for the seventh and last shirt.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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