Lexic.us

Definition of Bog down

1. Verb. Get stuck while doing something. "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation"

2. Verb. Cause to get stuck as if in a mire. "The mud mired our cart"

3. Verb. Be unable to move further. "The car bogged down in the sand"

4. Verb. Cause to slow down or get stuck. "The vote would bog down the house"

Definition of Bog down

1. Verb. (intransitive) To become stuck (as if in a bog) and unable to progress. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To cause to become stuck and unable to progress. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bog Down

boffins boffo boffola boffolas boffos boffs bog bog-orchid bog-standard bog asphodel

bog aster bog bilberries bog bilberry bog brush bog candles bog down (current term) bog hemp bog in bog iron bog iron ore

bog kalmia bog laurel bog moss bog myrtle bog off bog orchid bog pimpernel bog plant bog rein orchid bog rhubarb

Literary usage of Bog down

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Essay on Electricity: Explaining the Principles of that Useful Science by George Adams (1799)
"Take a piece of bog- down,* suspend it by silk; then take a pane of * Mr. Ee/es used bog-down, which, ..."

2. The Bailey Controversy in Texas: With Lessons from the Political Life-story by William Alexander Cocke (1908)
"A. He is a cranberry merchant; that is, he has got a cranberry bog down on the ... merchant and his cranberry bog down on the coast of Massachusetts," but ..."

3. Digest of Evidence Taken Before Her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry Into by John Pitt Kennedy, Earl of William Courtenay Devon, William Courtenay Devon (1847)
"I tuni the subsoil completely up, and lay the bog down ; it is very expensive, but it will pay me, 28. Have you reclaimed those seventy acres ?—Yes. 30. ..."

4. Transactions (1849)
"... there was a constant discharge of water, mixed with fine particles of peat, and which flowed in a crooked stream through the bog, down to Lough Bally. ..."

5. Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and by Robert Logan Jack (1921)
"We ran the bog down for about a quarter of a mile further to the west, and when it turned to the south of west, crossed it. The bog had a broad sheet of ..."

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