Meaning & use
Bogging
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Sinking into or becoming stuck in soft, wet ground; figuratively, becoming impeded by excessive detail, difficulty, or delay.
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The truck kept bogging down in the muddy field.
We got bogged down in paperwork and missed the deadline.
A note on using this word
The figurative use — "bogged down" in tasks or details — is now far more common in everyday speech than the literal sense of sinking into a bog.
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