bog
US: /ˈbɑɡ/, /ˈbɔɡ/
UK: /bˈɒɡ/
UK: /bˈɒɡ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
bog /bɔg/
- danh từ
- vũng lây, đầm lầy, bãi lầy
- vũng lây, đầm lầy, bãi lầy
- động từ
- sa lầy; làm sa lầy
- to get bogged down: bị sa lầy
- sa lầy; làm sa lầy
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun
1 [C, U] (an area of) wet soft ground, formed of decaying plants: a peat bog
See also -
2 [C] (BrE, slang) a toilet: Have you got any bog roll (= toilet paper)? + Sam was on the bog when I arrived.
+ verb (-gg-)
Phrasal Verbs: bog sth/sb down (in sth) [usually passive]
1 to make sth sink into mud or wet ground: The tank became bogged down in mud.
2 to prevent sb from making progress in an activity: We mustn't get bogged down in details.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 swamp, fen, marsh, quagmire:
The peat bogs have yielded interesting fossils.
2 bog down. impede, slow, hamper, encumber, stymie, stick, handicap, clog, check, set back, hold back:
Traffic is bogged down owing to roadworks.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
vast | stagnant, swampy | peat
VERB + BOG
sink into
The more she struggled the deeper she sank into the bog.
PREP.
in a/the ~
He found himself in a vast stagnant bog.
| through a/the ~
walking through a bog
Concise English dictionary
bogs|bogged|boggingbɒg
noun
+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
verb
+cause to slow down or get stuck
+get stuck while doing something
