1. 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
   "The hikers struggled to cross the peat bog";
   - peat bog
    
2. [Brit, informal] A room or building equipped with one or more toilets
   "He excused himself to use the bog";
   - toilet, lavatory, lav [informal], can [N. Amer, informal], john [informal], bathroom, water closet [Brit, archaic], closet [archaic], W.C. [Brit], loo [Brit, informal], jacks [Ireland, informal]

1. Cause to slow down or get stuck
   "The vote would bog down the house";
   - bog down
    
2. Get stuck while doing something
   "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation";
   - bog down

Derived forms: bogs, bogging, bogged

Type of: break, break off, cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, room, slow, slow down, slow up, stop, surcease [archaic], wetland

Encyclopedia: Bog, Westmoreland, Jamaica