bog

bog  (bôg, bg)

n.

1.

a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.

b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.

2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.

v. bogged, bog·ging, bogs

v.tr.

To cause to sink in or as if in a bog: We worried that the heavy rain across the prairie would soon bog our car. Don't bog me down in this mass of detail.

v.intr.

To be hindered and slowed.

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[Irish Gaelic bogach, from bog, soft; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.]

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boggi·ness n.

boggy adj.

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bog

Noun

1. a wet spongy area of land

2. Slang a toilet [Gaelic bogach swamp]

boggy adj
bogginess n

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bog  (bôg)

An area of wet, spongy ground consisting mainly of decayed or decaying peat moss (sphagnum) and other vegetation. Bogs form as the dead vegetation sinks to the bottom of a lake or pond, where it decays slowly to form peat. Peat bogs are important to global ecology, since the undecayed peat moss stores large amounts of carbon that would otherwise be released back into the atmosphere. Global warming may accelerate decay in peat bogs and release more carbon dioxide, which in turn may cause further warming.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	bog - 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 peat bog mire, morass, quag, quagmire, slack - a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot slough - a hollow filled with mud wetland - a low area where the land is saturated with water
Verb	1.	bog - cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house" bog down slow up, slow, slow down - cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"
	2.	bog - get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation" bog down break off, discontinue, stop, break - prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

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bog

noun marsh, moss Scot., Northern English (dialect) swamp, slough, wetlands, fen, mire, quagmire, morass, marshland, peat bog, pakihi N.Z. muskeg Canad.

bog something or someone down hold up, stick, delay, halt, stall, slow down, impede, slow up

Translations

bog [bɔg] n → pantano, ciénaga

vt to get bogged down (fig) → empantanarse, atascarse

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bog [bɔg] n → tourbière f

vt to get bogged down (in) (fig) → s'enliser (dans)

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bog [bɔg] n → Sumpf m

vt to get bogged down (fig) → sich verzetteln

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bog [bɔg] n → palude f

vt to get bogged down (fig) → impantanarsi