bog
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- muddy derivation
Sense 2 verb
cause to slow down or get stuck
The vote would bog down the house
Types & categories
- slow up hypernym
Sense 3 verb
get stuck while doing something
She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation
Types & categories
- break off hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | muddy |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | wetland |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mire |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | slough |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | slow up |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | break off |