1. an area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
2. any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. also called peat bog.
3. an area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.
4. to cause to sink in or as if in a bog: we worried that the heavy rain across the prairie would soon bog our car. don't bog me down in this mass of detail.
5. to be hindered and slowed.

1. an expanse of marshland.
2. A toilet.
3. to become (figuratively or literally) mired or stuck.
4. to make a mess of something.
5. to go away.

1. 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.
2. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.
3. to sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

1. to sink or submerge in a bog, or in mud and mire: used chiefly in the passive, to be bogged.
2. to sink or stick in a bog; hence, to flounder among obstacles; be stopped.
3. bold; sturdy; self-sufficient; petulant; saucy.
4. brag; boastfulness.
5. to boast.
6. to provoke.
7. to ease the body by stool.
8. wet, soft, and spongy ground, where the soil is composed mainly of decayed and decaying vegetable matter; a quagmire covered with grass or other plants; a piece of mossy or peaty ground; a moss.
9. A little elevated piece of earth in a marsh or swamp, filled with roots and grass.
10. A specter; a bugbear.

1. get stuck while doing something
2. 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
3. cause to slow down or get stuck