What is "bogs down"

Usage examples of "bogs down".

This book has some great stuff in it about courage, and the foolishness of taking duty to an extreme, but it also bogs down (pardon the pun) a bit in the middle.

The story then bogs down for a while because there are no more Germans to kill, and Shaftoe, sensing that Bischoff’.

Stirling's descriptions offer a wealth of detail, but that detail never bogs down the story, which is a nice trick if you can pull it off the way he does.

If any pursuit of you comes through Gwynedd we'll see that it bogs down a s surely as a stag's scent fails when he takes to water.

The story then bogs down for a while because there are no more Germans to kill, and Shaftoe, sensing that Bischoffs attention is beginning to wander, tries to inject some lurid thrills into the narrative by describing the progress of the gangrene up the leg of the officer who ran afoul of the ax (who, as far as Bischoff can make out, was under suspicion as a possible German spy).