bog
/bɔɡ/ verb C2- To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
- To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
- To sink and stick in bogland.
- To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
He/she/it bogs · Past bogged · Past participle bogged · -ing form bogging
Verb forms
- Base form
- bog
- He/she/it
- bogs
- Past
- bogged
- Past participle
- bogged
- -ing form
- bogging
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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I saw his head for quite a long time craning out of the bog-hole, but it sucked him down at last.
It is something to have touched bottom anywhere in this bog in which we are floundering.
Stapleton to the point where they had found a pathway through the bog.
We left her standing upon the thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil which tapered out into the widespread bog.
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