| 单词 | to be bogged |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be bogged b. (passive.) to be bogged: to be sunk and entangled in a bog or quagmire; also = sense 2. Also with down; chiefly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > be arrested or intercepted in progress > by mud, bog, or sand stablec1571 mire?1590 to be bogged1743–7 boga1800 set1869 founder1875 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (intransitive)] > come to an impasse or be stuck to stick in the claya1475 stick1534 stale1597 cumber1600 to stick in the mud1603 straita1616 strand1687 quagmire1701 stog1855 slew1890 bunker1894 bog1928 to be bogged1953 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iv. i. 217 Bogg'd in his filthy Lusts. View more context for this quotation 1743–7 N. Tindal Contin. Rapin's Hist. Eng. (1751) I. 136 His horse was bogged on the other side. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 208 Any other horse and rider must have been instantly bogged up to the saddle-girths. 1841 T. Arnold Let. in Life & Corr. (1844) II. x. 304 I hope to see some of my boys and girls well bogged in the middle of Bagley Wood. 1928 Amer. Speech 4 132 To be ‘bogged down’ or ‘mired down’ is to be mired, generally in the ‘wet valleys’ in the spring. 1953 A. Upfield Murder must Wait xii. 108 The investigation stopped when bogged down by official impatience. 1955 Times 11 May 10/3 His approach to them would not be bogged down by ‘minor points of protocol’. < as lemmas |
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