bog down

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English

Verb

bog down (third-person singular simple present bogs down, present participle bogging down, simple past and past participle bogged down)

  1. (intransitive, "get"-passive) To become stuck (as if in a bog) and unable to progress.
    • 1979 December 22, Andy Beck, “BENT: To Remind, To Instruct, To Warn”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 11:
      The play bogs down in narrative as we watch Max and Rudy flee Berlin.
  2. (transitive) To cause to become stuck and unable to progress.

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