bog

/bɑg/

/bɒg/

Other forms: bogs; bogged; bogging

You'd be pretty soggy by morning if you accidentally set your tent up in a bog. A bog is a swampy kind of ground made up mostly of decomposing plants and mosses.

Nothing can be built on a bog because the ground is so spongy and damp, and no crops can be grown there. The dried soil from a bog can, however, be dried and burned for fuel. A figurative bog is anything that you tend to get stuck in, like a bog of health problems. Things can also "bog you down", or slow you down literally or figuratively, like when your homework bogs you down so you can't enjoy the weekend.

Definitions of bog

1. 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
   synonyms: peat bog

   types:

   mire, morass, quag, quagmire, slack

   a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

   slough

   a hollow filled with mud

   type of:

   wetland

   a low area where the land is saturated with water
2. verb

   cause to slow down or get stuck
   “The vote would bog down the house”

   synonyms: bog down

   type of:

   slow, slow down, slow up

   cause to proceed more slowly
3. verb

   get stuck while doing something
   “She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation”

   synonyms: bog down

   type of:

   break, break off, discontinue, stop

   prevent completion