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bog

/bɔɡ/noun, verb1 syllable

Bog means: 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.

Synonyms for bog11

noun, as in 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

peat bog

verb, as in cause to slow down or get stuck

bog down

verb, as in get stuck while doing something

bog down

also used for bog

marsh, swamp, mire, fen, slough, moor, quagmire, morass, morass. See swamp

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What does bog mean?3

noun

1

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

1

cause to slow down or get stuck“The vote would bog down the house”

2

get stuck while doing something“She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with bog?8

one syllable

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Bog in a sentence

  • Grounding and other bog-standard punishments didn't get through to his son at all.papabear
  • The skyscraper is expected to sink into the bog.Tximist
  • I aspire to be a bog witch some day.shekitten
  • We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.unknown
  • I don't want to get bogged down in details.hsilver
  • The truck got bogged down in the mud.Amastan
  • We need to do our best to prevent the truck from getting bogged down.Amastan
  • The truck is getting more and more bogged down.Amastan

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Forms of bog

as a noun

plural
bogs

as a verb

past tense
bogged
present participle
bogging
third-person singular
bogs
past participle
bogged