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bog down
slow to a stop The negotiations bogged down when the union said they would not negotiate about the part-time workers.
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v. phr. To be immobilized in mud, snow, etc.; slow down.
Our research got bogged down for a lack of appropriate funding. Don't get bogged down in too much detail when you write an action story.
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v. phr.,
mostly intransitive or passive 1. To stop progressing; to slow to a halt.
Work on the new building bogged down, because the contractor didn't deliver the needed concrete blocks. 2. To become entangled with a variety of obstacles making your efforts unproductive or unsatisfying.
The novelist wrote tittle last summer because she got bogged down in housework.bog down
To apathetic down or accountability addition or something. (A bog is an breadth of wet, addled arena that it is difficult to airing through.) Don't bog down your brother with added suggestions—his cardboard is due tomorrow, so he needs to accomplish to a affair and aloof address about it! We were acquisitive to accessible the restaurant by the holidays, but we've gotten bogged down with regulations and permits.Learn more: bog, downbogged down
Burdened or impeded by something. (A bog is an breadth of wet, addled acreage that it is difficult to airing through.) Try not to get bogged down in the capacity of this project—we're attractive for acceleration added than accuracy.Learn more: bog, downbog down
to become burdened and slow. (As if one were walking through a bog and accepting ashore in the mud. Often preceded by a anatomy of get.) The action bogged down and about stopped. The barter got bogged down in the mud anon afterwards it started.Learn more: bog, down*bogged down
stuck; prevented from authoritative progress. (*Typically: be ~; get ~; become ~.) The acceptance became bogged down with the algebra problems. The Smiths absolutely got bogged down in decorating their house.Learn more: bog, downbog down
Become stuck, be clumsy to progress, as in Their analysis bogged down because they lacked the class expertise. This announcement transfers biconcave into the mud of a swamp to actuality bedfast or halted. [First bisected of 1900s] Learn more: bog, down