BOGGING (DOWN) Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

bogging (down)

verb

present participle of bog (down)

as in trapping

to place in conflict or difficulties we were bogged down by the endless changes, and of course finished late

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Many were built during a prison boom that started in the 1970s and were constructed with heat-trapping materials like concrete and steel.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026
Heavy rain has already flooded some roads in southern New Mexico, trapping drivers in cars until the waters receded.

— Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

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In 1984 the late mathematician Vaughan Jones introduced a new way to assign polynomials to knots, thereby tangling the two fields together.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
There are also the journalists, the athletes, and the kids who spend sunny days doing contact improv, which was invented at Oberlin, tangling their limbs in the grass outside the library.

— Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026

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Temperatures in the area approached or exceeded triple digits Wednesday, amid a punishing heat wave that is broiling Southern California.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Dozens of young people, including a twenty-one-year-old professional footballer, drowned while seeking relief in open water; three French children died in broiling cars.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

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Since then, the conflict has taken on an ethnic as well as an international dimension, embroiling Sudan’s neighbors but also the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine and Iran.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Matti Friedman, a former Associated Press reporter in the Middle East, has observed that in the conflicts embroiling Israel and diaspora Jewry, many major Western media institutions have recast themselves as participants instead of observers.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026

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