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bog down
verb
- adverbwhentr, often passive to impede or be impeded physically or mentally
Idioms and Phrases
Become stuck, be unable to progress, as in Their research bogged down because they lacked the laboratory expertise . This expression transfers sinking into the mud of a swamp to being hampered or halted. [First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
The hiring of new firefighters has also bogged down amid the deluge of sometimes-conflicting orders from the administration and DOGE, Forest Service staffers said.
It stalls out when it gets bogged down in backroom conversations that dwell in the details of betrayal and double-crosses.
“She doesn’t get bogged down in that grief, but she carries it with her, with grace and dignity.”
He described his own narrow escape when the car he was travelling in got bogged down.
Instead, the new system bogged down for many.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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