verb
- Get stuck while doing something.
- usage: "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation"
- synonyms: bog
- Cause to get stuck as if in a mire.
- usage: "The mud mired our cart"
- synonyms: mire
- Be unable to move further.
- usage: "The car bogged down in the sand"
- synonyms: grind to a halt, get stuck, mire
- Cause to slow down or get stuck.
- usage: "The vote would bog down the house"
- synonyms: bog
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