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
source: WordNet 3.0
A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
source: Webster 1913
verb
cause to slow down or get stuck
The vote would bog down the house.
source: WordNet 3.0
get stuck while doing something
She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation.
source: WordNet 3.0
To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.
