embogv.
/ɛmˈbɒɡ/ transitive. To plunge into a bog; to hamper in a bog, literal and figurative.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > bring to an impasse
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1602 C. Best in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 472 Imbogg'd he shall be, where nought he shall see But horror and feare.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 574/1 Hee was..constrained..to embogge himselfe in the Bankers and Vsurers bookes.
1752 Wesley in Wks. (1872) II. 256 Attempting to ride over the common..my mare was quickly imbogged.
1867 N. Brit. Daily Mail 30 Sept. The valley was so soft that the big guns would have become embogged.
1888 Daily Tel. 1 June 5/2 Embogued in a morass.
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