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1 Stuck, as if in a bog. 2 (label en idiomatic figuratively) Stuck; mired, as in detail, difficulty; delayed or made slower. v
(past of bog down English)
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See bog down
Usage examples of "bogged down".
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.
We got bogged down, and there you were, charging into the distance like some kid!
It dawned on him that he was bogged down in petty details while big events rushed on unheeded.
Pea ignored the remark--it was necessary to ignore most of those Gus made or else you got bogged down in useless conversation.
Sudan took America's place, and if its diplomats are not too bogged down with human torture and slave trading, they are very much looking forward to attending the meetings.
A president, I guess, can get so bogged down in the moment that you're unable to be the strategic thinker that you're supposed to be, or at least provide strategic thought.
He was bogged down in the lugga and we all piled into one of the hunting vehicles.
That sap-headed misfit Johnny Willoughby which used to work for me down on Green River is sheriff here and he couldn't ketch flies if they was bogged down in merlasses.
Even the rematch with Spinks was bogged down in the arcane politics of big-money boxing -- and Pat Patterson, like all the others who had geared their lives to the fortunes of Muhammad Ali, understood that the rematch would have to be soon.
Mir, with an eye to practical adaptation which explained much of his reputation for genius, had seen no reason not to use a perfectly sound existing design rather than get bogged down in esoteric new concepts.
East and west it appears to have bogged down for the winter, and the crimes of the Germans will go on for many more months unchecked, perhaps multiplying because this is their last chance to commit them.