bog down

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bog down - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bog down
      v 1: get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many
           times while she wrote her dissertation" [syn: bog down,
           bog]
      2: cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart"
         [syn: mire, bog down]
      3: be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand"
         [syn: grind to a halt, get stuck, bog down, mire]
      4: cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the
         house" [syn: bog down, bog]