Definition for Bog:

• cause to slow down or get stuck; " The vote would bog down the house"

Synonyms for Bog:

• n.

  •
  • mudflats,
  • flats.
  •
  • dry,
  • latrine,
  • porta potty,
  • the john,
  • water closet,
  • commode,
  • W.C.,
  • lavatory,
  • Facilities,
  • morass.
  •bog (noun)
  • bog down.
  •bog down (noun)
  • deluge,
  • halt,
  • stick,
  • set back,
  • sink,
  • delay,
  • stall,
  • hinder,
  • overwhelm,
  • hold up.
  •swamp (noun)
  • marsh,
  • quagmire,
  • fen,
  • sump,
  • peat,
  • lowland.
  •waste (noun)
  • wilds,
  • dust bowl,
  • brushland,
  • waste,
  • barrens.

• v.

  •change (verb)
  • bog.
  •retard (verb)
  • brought screeching halt,
  • bringing to screeching halt,
  • de-laying,
  • de-creasing,
  • brings to screeching halt,
  • chokes off,
  • hanged up,
  • de creases,
  • de-creased,
  • de-creases,
  • brought to screeching halt,
  • de-lay,
  • de lay,
  • slows down,
  • de tains,
  • de tain,
  • de laying,
  • hanging up,
  • re duce,
  • retardated,
  • post pone,
  • bring screeching halt,
  • de crease,
  • re duces,
  • de-lays,
  • slows up,
  • post-pones,
  • slowing down,
  • post pones,
  • slowing up,
  • de lays,
  • brings screeching halt,
  • de-tains,
  • de-crease,
  • re-duce,
  • re-duces,
  • de creased,
  • bringing screeching halt,
  • de creasing,
  • retardating,
  • closes off,
  • de-tain.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • salt marsh,
  • fenland,
  • vlei,
  • wetland,
  • wetlands.
  •
  • obstruct,
  • impede.
  •
  • encumber.
  •destroy
  • obliterate.
  •dirt
  • mud.

Paraphrases for Bog:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, plural
    peatlands.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    sloughs, mires.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    mire, quagmire, morass.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    peatland, peat.
  • Noun, plural
    marshlands, swamps, wetlands, marshes, Glades, fens, moors.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    peatland, drains, fen, peat, muskeg.

Bog Sentence Examples:

• He will break a leg in yon bog - holes, and then he will have to be shot!

• Up, up, over rocks and streams, and patches of black bog - up, up, through woods and briars and furze, they leaped and climbed and scrambled - laughing and panting and scolding and screaming!

Hypernym for Bog:

• n.

  • object
    quagmire, slough, mire, Quag, slack, morass.

Hyponym for Bog:

• n.

  • object
    wetland.

• v.

  • change
    slow down, slow up, slow.