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Synonyms for bog
bɒg, bɔgbog

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  1. bog, peat bogverb

    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

  2. bog down, bogverb

    cause to slow down or get stuck

    "The vote would bog down the house"

    Synonyms:
    get stuck, grind to a halt, bog down, mire

  3. bog down, bogverb

    get stuck while doing something

    "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation"

    Synonyms:
    get stuck, grind to a halt, bog down, mire

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. bognoun

    Synonyms:
    morass, quagmire, slough, fen, marsh, swamp

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. bognoun

    Synonyms:
    quagmire, marsh, swamp, fen, morass, slough

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "bog":

    peatland, peatlands, fen, bogs, swamp, mire, marsh, quagmire, marshes, peat, gao, fens

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#15092swamp
#23357bog
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#44185quagmire
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How to use bog in a sentence?

  1. Scott Stewart:

    When you look at the number of passengers every day, and the number of stations that we have, you would need to institute security at every station along a subway, instituting that same level of security would be very costly. It would also create tie-ups and bog down commuting times.

  2. jaqueline wilson:

    bog off Elaine

  3. State John Kerry on Tuesday:

    I welcome today's consensus adoption by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors (BOG) of the resolution addressing the Director General's December 2 final assessment of the possible military dimensions (PMD) of Iran's past nuclear program.

  4. Suhail Shaheen:

    Afghanistan is the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan is a swamp, the more you move, the more you bog down.

  5. E. B. White:

    Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.


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