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Mired (with "down")
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bogged
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Word definitions for bogged in dictionaries
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vb. (en-pastbog)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bog \Bog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bogged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bogging .] To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. --Sir W. Scott.
Usage examples of bogged.
It was halfway up the side of a big sand dune as though it had stalled or bogged down in an effort to surmount this obstacle.
Twice the seismological truck got bogged down and we had to lay sand mats.
Again the truck behind us became bogged and we dug the sand mats down in front of the wheels and pushed and strained to gain a few yards.
He didn’t think anything of it until a landcruiser, and then another one, bogged down in the muck.
Our drives in eastern France have bogged down again—not surprising, when half the local landcruiser crews cared more about tasting ginger than fighting.
Ussmak didn’t blame him: landcruisers were made for quick, slashing attacks to cut off and trap large bodies of the enemy, not to get bogged down battling for a city one street at a time.
He went on, “If we’d bogged down there, they might have been able to fly in reinforcements to their soldiers here.
We got bogged down, and there you were, charging into the distance like some kid!
Tanks bogged down, ammunition resupply became difficult, and the casualty rate became serious.
The calls for assistance from the 1st Battalion radio came through clearly to my headquarters, which was bogged down and sweating it out at Femina Morta.
He was way off the reservation with this little hunt, but he needed answers and running things through the proper channels was sure to get him bogged down in a quagmire of politics and diplomacy.
If they didn’t move decisively, if they didn’t shock the enemy and keep them off balance, they could quickly find themselves bogged down in a house-to-house fight where they would be outnumbered—an entrenched street-by-street battle against a well-seasoned force that was not known for taking prisoners.
Patton knew well after fighting in WWI what happened when forces got bogged down.
The campaign of Emperor Kal Zakath of Mallorea, whose presence on this continent had been a great cause for concern, had bogged down in the mountains of western Cthol Murgos and showed some promise of grinding on for decades far from the borders of any of the Kingdoms of the West.
General Brendig apologized as he rode up, "but we had to march around that quagmire where the Drasnian pikemen are bogged down.