bog

[ US /ˈbɑɡ, ˈbɔɡ/ ]
[ UK /bˈɒɡ/ ]

NOUN

wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel

VERB

get stuck while doing something
She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation
cause to slow down or get stuck
The vote would bog down the house

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How To Use bog In A Sentence

Although, as we shall see, Ryle says a good deal more about our mental concepts, it cannot be said that he seriously addresses this question and thereby slays the bogy of mechanism.
We filter all the e-mails in the evening to verify whether any bogus votes are cast.
The exams are just around the corner and students are bogged down with preparation work for practicals and orals but the Transition year students found time to raise funds for those less fortunate.
Reilly will compare the population status and dynamics of the European common frog in the three different types of peat bogs found in Ireland.
But the process to extend his term became bogged down in a series of disputes that had raised an outside chance that Mr. Mueller's tenure would be briefly interrupted. NYT > Home Page
The Australian Alps are also known for the annual migration of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) which aestivate in the mountains each summer. Australian Alps montane grasslands
Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
Where woods existed near undrained marsh or bog, a traveller's difficulties were enhanced.
Sick of his persona - delicate emotions paired off with caustic cynicism - he creates a bogus doppelganger to hide behind.
He reeled off six consecutive pars before taking bogey from a greenside bunker at No. 8. USATODAY.com - Goosen ganders second U.S. Open victory

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