BOGGING (DOWN) Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

bogging (down)

verb

present participle of bog (down)

as in trapping

to place in conflict or difficulties we were bogged down by the endless changes, and of course finished late

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Prohibitive housing costs aren’t just trapping younger adults in parental homes.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Summer campers rescued Friday’s drenching rains washed away roads around Camp Taum Sauk, trapping children and staffers at the site in the small southeastern community of Lesterville, according to Sgt.

— Hallie Golden, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026

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For more than a year, an uncontrolled fire had burned in the bowels of the dump, broiling old garbage and sending nauseating fumes into nearby homes.

— Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Those who turn to methods like broiling and roasting when cooking will be prone to more buildup in their oven, Murphy explains, due to the way heat breaks down oil and fat.

— Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 2 July 2026

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Matti Friedman, a former Associated Press reporter in the Middle East, has observed that in the conflicts embroiling Israel and diaspora Jewry, many major Western media institutions have recast themselves as participants instead of observers.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026
The scale of the fraud in Minnesota dwarfs the roughly $100 million welfare scandal that rocked Mississippi from 2016 to 2019, embroiling former NFL quarterback Brett Favre in a civil lawsuit and sullying the state’s reputation for oversight.

— The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2026

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