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bog
 
NOUN:A usually low-lying area of soft waterlogged ground and standing water: fen, marsh, marshland, mire, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, slough1, swamp, swampland, wetland. See DRY.
VERB:To interfere with the progress of. Also used with down: encumber, hinder, hold back, impede, obstruct. Idioms: get in the way of. See HELP, OPEN.
 
 
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