BOG: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for BOG?

Need another word that means the same as “bog”? Find 31 synonyms and 30 related words for “bog” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Bog” are: peat bog, marsh, marshland, swamp, swampland, sump, mire, quagmire, quag, morass, slough, fen, fenland, wetland, carr, lavatory, bathroom, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, bog down, stick, trap, entangle, ensnare, embroil, encumber, catch up

Bog as a Noun

Definitions of "Bog" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “bog” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• The toilet.
• An area of wet muddy ground that is too soft to support a heavy body.
• 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.
• Wetland with acid peaty soil, typically dominated by peat moss.

Synonyms of "Bog" as a noun (22 Words)

bathroom	A set of matching units to be fitted in a bathroom especially as sold together. I have to go to the bathroom.
carr	Fen woodland or scrub that is typically dominated by alder or willow.
facilities	A natural effortlessness. They conversed with great facility.
fen	100 fen equal 1 yuan in China. 55 acres of fen.
fenland	Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water. Thousands of acres of fenland.
latrine	A public toilet in a military area.
lavatory	A sink or washbasin in a bathroom or toilet. He locked himself in the downstairs lavatory.
marsh	Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water. The marsh marigold loves damp fields riverbanks and marshes.
marshland	Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water. Acres of meadows and marshlands.
mire	A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. The country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president.
morass	A complicated or confused situation. In midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass.
outhouse	A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate.
peat bog	Partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried.
privy	A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate.
quag	A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot.
quagmire	An awkward, complex, or hazardous situation. Torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire.
slough	Any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake. The economic slough of the interwar years.
sump	A well or other hole in which water has collected.
swamp	Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog. He was trapped in a medical swamp.
swampland	Land consisting of swamps. Many had trekked through swampland to reach the border.
wetland	A low area where the land is saturated with water. Wetland habitats.

Usage Examples of "Bog" as a noun

• A peat bog.
• A bog of legal complications.
• The island is a wilderness of bog and loch.

Bog as a Verb

Definitions of "Bog" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “bog” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Get stuck while doing something.
• Cause to slow down or get stuck.
• Be or become stuck in mud or wet ground.
• Be prevented from making progress in a task or activity.

Synonyms of "Bog" as a verb (9 Words)

bog down	Cause to slow down or get stuck.
catch up	Catch up with and possibly overtake.
embroil	Force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action. What merit do you claim for having embroiled everything in which you are concerned.
encumber	Hold back. She was encumbered by her heavy skirts.
ensnare	Catch in or as if in a trap. They were ensnared in city centre traffic.
entangle	Twist together or entwine into a confusing mass. Fish attempt to swim through the mesh and become entangled.
mire	Cause to get stuck as if in a mire. The horse waded through the red mud that mired it to its hocks.
stick	Come or be in close contact with stick or hold together and resist separation. Stick the poster onto the wall.
trap	Hold or catch as if in a trap. The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot.

Usage Examples of "Bog" as a verb

• The vote would bog down the house.
• The car became bogged down on the beach road.
• She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation.
• You must not get bogged down in detail.

Associations of "Bog" (30 Words)

arroyo	A steep-sided gully formed by the action of fast-flowing water in an arid or semi-arid region, found chiefly in the south-western US.
canyon	A ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall. The Grand Canyon.
clay	A hardened clay surface for a tennis court. She won more matches on clay than any other player.
damp	Damp air or atmosphere. The house reeked of mould and damp.
dank	Unpleasantly damp and cold. Huge dank caverns.
dusty	(of a colour) dull or muted. A dusty pile of books.
impassable	Incapable of being passed. The narrow channels are impassable to ocean going ships.
lichen	Any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks. Rocks covered with gold lichens.
marsh	Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water. The marsh marigold loves damp fields riverbanks and marshes.
marshland	Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water. Marshland landscapes.
marshy	Characteristic of or resembling a marsh; waterlogged. A marshy coastline.
mire	Soil with mud muck or mire. The country is still trying to climb out of the mire left by its previous president.
morass	A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. In midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass.
moss	Used in names of algae lichens and higher plants resembling moss e g reindeer moss Ceylon moss Spanish moss. Nature has mossed the gravel walks and roads.
mud	Soil with mud muck or mire. The two sides took over the local media to throw mud at each other.
muddy	Cause to become muddy. The first year s results muddy rather than clarify the situation.
mudslide	A landslide of mud.
pool	Something resembling a pool of liquid. The body lay in a pool of blood.
puddle	Knead clay and sand into puddle. The cobbles under our feet were wet and puddled.
quagmire	An awkward, complex, or hazardous situation. Torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire.
quicksand	A treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy. It s best to travel with a local as there are quicksands.
seaweed	Large algae growing in the sea or on rocks below the high-water mark. Seaweed glistened on the rocks.
silt	Become filled or blocked with silt. The silted mouth of the river.
sludge	Any thick, viscous matter. A sludge green.
soggy	Having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking. The chorus sings powerfully but the interpretation is ultimately soggy.
splashing	The act of splashing a liquid substance on a surface.
swamp	A situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables. A huge wave swamped the canoes.
swampy	Soft and watery. A swampy area.
wet	Make one s bed or clothes wet by urinating. Our programme depends on our willingness to help other alcoholics both wet and dry.
wetland	Land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land. Wetland habitats.