Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bog

1 sense of bog

Sense 1
bog, peat 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)
       => wetland -- (a low area where the land is saturated with water)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb bog

2 senses of bog

Sense 1
bog down, bog -- (cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house")
       => slow, slow down, slow up -- (cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down")

Sense 2
bog down, bog -- (get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation")
       => break, break off, discontinue, stop -- (prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations")