bog down

phrasal verb

bogged down; bogging down; bogs down

1

: to cause (something) to sink in wet ground

The mud bogged down the car.

The car got bogged down in the mud.

—often used figuratively

It's easy to get bogged down in details.

2

: to become stuck in wet ground

The car bogged down in the mud.

—often used figuratively

The story bogs down after the second chapter.

Examples of bog down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But that’s ultimately what bogs down the film as well. —Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 10 July 2025

With the aid of intuitive, user-friendly landscape design software, exterior architects and designers can easily streamline the time-consuming practices that threaten to bog down projects. —Alia Akkam, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2025

This is a hugely disruptive and costly process that angers customers and bogs down non-experts in IT remediation. —Jonathan Rende, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024

And any kind of task that involves loading modern webpages in Safari quickly bogs down. —ArsTechnica, 24 July 2025

Rhymes for bog down

• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown
• godown
• hometown