Meaning

11 senses
  1. (often, transitive)To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.

  2. (figuratively)To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.

  3. (intransitive, often)To sink and stick in bogland.

  4. (figuratively)To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.

    застреватьzastrevatʹ, увязатьuvjazatʹ

  5. (Australia, intransitive)To defecate, to void one's bowels.

  6. (Australia, transitive)To cover or spray with excrement.

  7. (UK, informal, transitive)To make a mess of something.

  8. (UK, euphemistic, slang, usually)To go away.

  9. (Internet, transitive)To perform excessive cosmetic surgery that results in a bizarre or obviously artificial facial appearance.

  10. (Internet, reflexive)To have excessive cosmetic surgery performed on oneself, often with a poor or conspicuously unnatural result.

  11. (obsolete, transitive)To provoke, to bug.

More definitions
  • get stuck while doing something
  • cause to slow down or get stuck

Examples

25 sentences
  1. Our evidence is no more than a tiny sliver of solid knowledge amidst the vast bog of doubts and speculations.

    Наші факти - не більше ніж крихітна скалка міцного знання у розлогому багні сумлівів та спекуляцій.

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  2. He got bogged down at work.

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  3. The talks have become bogged down.

    deDie Verhandlungen haben sich festgefahren.

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  4. The mud bogged down the truck.

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  5. Algeria is bogged down with problems.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
become mired or stuck:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish

Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.

Uncertain, although possibly related to bug in its original senses of "big" and "puffed up".

From bug off, a clipping of bugger off, likely under the influence of bog (coarse British slang for "toilet[s]").

From an abbreviation of Bogdanoff, in reference to Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff.

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Forms

bogs, bogging, bogged, bogged
Base formbog · to bog
3rd person singularbogs
Present participlebogging
Past simplebogged
Past participlebogged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybog
he, she, itbogs

Past simpleLesson

all personsbogged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bogged
he, she, ithas bogged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bog

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • get stuck while doing something:bog down
  • cause to slow down or get stuck:bog down

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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