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Verb: bog down  bóg dawn
  1. Get stuck while doing something
    "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation";
    - bog
     
  2. Cause to get stuck as if in a mire
    "The mud bogged down our cart";
    - mire
     
  3. Be unable to move further
    "The car bogged down in the sand";
    - grind to a halt, get stuck, mire
     
  4. Cause to slow down or get stuck
    "The vote would bog down the house";
    - bog

Derived forms: bogging down, bogged down, bogs down

Type of: break, break off, discontinue, slow, slow down, slow up, stand still, stop