bog
/bɔɡ/noun, verb1 syllable
Bog means: wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel.
Synonyms for bog11
noun, as in wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
verb, as in cause to slow down or get stuck
verb, as in get stuck while doing something
also used for bog
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What does bog mean?3
noun
wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel
verb
cause to slow down or get stuck“The vote would bog down the house”
get stuck while doing something“She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with bog?8
Bog in a sentence
- Grounding and other bog-standard punishments didn't get through to his son at all.papabear
- The skyscraper is expected to sink into the bog.Tximist
- I aspire to be a bog witch some day.shekitten
- We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.unknown
- I don't want to get bogged down in details.hsilver
- The truck got bogged down in the mud.Amastan
- We need to do our best to prevent the truck from getting bogged down.Amastan
- The truck is getting more and more bogged down.Amastan
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Forms of bog
as a noun
- plural
- bogs
as a verb
- past tense
- bogged
- present participle
- bogging
- third-person singular
- bogs
- past participle
- bogged