Bog - English meaning

noun

(in the southern us) a marshy outlet of a lake or river.

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Alabama's gulf coast extends over 32 miles of beaches along the gulf of mexico and inland areas of …

noun

(in the southern us) an area of slowly moving or still water connected to a river or lake

noun

Fen woodland or scrub that is typically dominated by alder or willow.

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Reed-fringed dykes in the very centre of the vast halvergate marshes harbour a few in winter; fenla…

Written abbreviation for carriage forward

noun

A low and marshy or frequently flooded area of land.

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A native species of fens and damp meadows

noun

A monetary unit of china, equal to one hundredth of a yuan.

Usage examples:

Of some 10 million containers, 70 per cent were purchased at the rate of two fen each.

noun

An area of low, flat, wet land in england

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Areas of marsh and fen, the road to ely leads out across the fens.

noun

Land consisting of fens.

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Thousands of acres of fenland

noun

An area of low, flat, wet land in england

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Areas of marsh and fen, the road to ely leads out across the fens.

noun

An area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times.

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The marsh marigold loves damp fields, riverbanks, and marshes

Low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation

noun

An area of low, wet land, usually covered with tall grasses

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[ c ] the marshes along the coast are home to many shorebirds., marshy ground

noun

Land consisting of marshes.

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Acres of meadows and marshlands

noun

An area of marsh

noun

A stretch of swampy or boggy ground.

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Acres of land had been reduced to a mire

verb

Cause to become stuck in mud.

Usage examples:

Sometimes a heavy truck gets mired down

noun

An area of deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. any messy situation

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The cart’s wheels sank in the red mire., fig. at the time the country was mired in the great depres…

noun

A tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather.

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A little town in the moors

verb

Make fast (a boat) by attaching it by cable or rope to the shore or to an anchor.

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Twenty or so fishing boats were moored to the pierside

noun

A member of a north-western african muslim people of mixed berber and arab descent. in the 8th century they conquered the iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in granada at the end of the 15th century.

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For centuries córdoba was the moors' capital and one of europe's most sophisticated cities

noun

An area of muddy or boggy ground.

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In midwinter the track beneath this bridge became a muddy morass

noun

Something that is extremely complicated and difficult to deal with, making any advance almost impossible

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The morass of rules and regulations is delaying the start of the project.

noun

A small flowerless green plant that lacks true roots, growing in damp habitats and reproducing by means of spores released from stalked capsules.

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The trees are overgrown with vines and moss

verb

Cover with moss.

Usage examples:

Nature has mossed the gravel walks and roads

adjective

Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants

noun

A marshy or boggy place.

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The entire region plunged into deep chaos and a nation was caught up in a deep quag, that it is sti…

noun

A soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot.

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Torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire

noun

A situation that can easily trap you so that you become involved with problems from which it is difficult to escape

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When i tried to get my tax situation straightened out with the government, i ran into a bureaucrati…

noun

(chiefly in the caribbean or south america) a salt pan, salt lake, or salt marsh.

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Playas (salinas in south america; sabkhas or sebkhas in africa) are found in closed interior basins…

noun

A swamp.

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The main landscape feature is endless peat bog, surrounded by marsh, leading into morasses, sloughs…

verb

Shed or remove (a layer of dead skin).

Usage examples:

A snake sloughs off its old skin

noun

The dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh.

Usage examples:

The drugs can cause blistering and slough

noun

A pit or hollow in which liquid collects, especially one in the floor of a mine or cave.

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The firm also claimed that each skip had four drainage holes to allow waste liquid to drain into a …

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A hole or container, especially in the lower part of an engine, into which a liquid that is not needed can flow

noun

An area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects; a bog or marsh.

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They usually breed in marshes and brushy swamps with some open water, dense, low vegetation, and pe…

verb

Overwhelm or flood with water.

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A huge wave swamped the canoes

noun

An area of very wet, soft land

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[ c ] alligators live in these swamps., a low-lying, swampy region, the boat was swamped by an enor…

noun

Land consisting of swamps.

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Many had trekked through swampland to reach the border

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An area of swamp

noun

Land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land.

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The draining of british wetlands

noun

A large area of land covered with swamp or marsh