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nounwet 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
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"She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation"verbget stuck while doing something
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"The vote would bog down the house"verbcause to slow down or get stuck
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Definition that contains bog
- yellow milkwort bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers
- myrica gale bog shrub of north temperate zone having bitter-tasting fragrant leaves
- habenaria albiflora bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers
- marsh tea bog shrub of northern and central Europe and eastern Siberia to Korea and Japan
- orange milkwort bog plant of pine barrens of southeastern United States having spikes of irregular yellow-orange flowers
- narthecium bog asphodels; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae
- fringed grass of parnassus bog plant with broadly heart-shaped basal leaves and cream-colored or white saucer-shaped flowers with fringed petals; west of Rocky Mountains from Alaska to New Mexico
- scotch gale bog shrub of north temperate zone having bitter-tasting fragrant leaves
- white fringed orchid bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers
- wild rosemary bog shrub of northern and central Europe and eastern Siberia to Korea and Japan