Bog

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–noun 

1. wet, spongy ground with soil composed mainly 

of

decayed vegetable matter. 



2. an area or stretch of such ground. 



–verb (used with object), verb (used without object) 

3. to sink in 

or 

as if in a bog (often fol. by down): We were bogged [down] by overwork.  



—Verb phrase

4. bog in, Australian Slang. to eat heartily and ravenously. (femished!!!)





　

The weak link in all this fun is Nuada himself. Goss embodies all the menace of Keanu Reeves, and his voice is roundly unimposing.



The movie bogs [down] only when the story leaves the city and heads for Ireland where, inexplicably, the Golden Army [dwells]. The army's awakening and combat is easily the least interesting sequence in the film 



-- the most [convention]ally chaotic and pedestrian. Hellboy's encounter with Nuada, atop a giant mechanism that looks like the insides of a cosmic watch, is invigorating. And probably the result of del Toro channeling one of his past lives in Switzerland.





quandary (mental)

plight (peril seldom used, except laughingly) When his [suit] wasn't ready at the cleaners, he was in a terrible plight.

predicament (seldom used, crucial)



quandary stalemate 

quagmire

slough 



stagnation

My [mind] is stagnating from too much TV.  

When the [leading lady] left, the show started to stagnate.  

throttle

His message was throttled by [censorship].  

the Weinstein Co. has decided to [go full throttle] on securing a release date and mobilizing the marketing materials.



cumbersome

encumber

He was hailed as a visionary, fetishized by his fans, encumbered by [expectations]. 



cusp 

foil

Loyal troops foiled his [attempt] to overthrow the government.  

The [straight] man was an able foil to the [comic].  

and proved an [apt] foil for the leering one-liners of Bob "Cherchez la Femme" Hope in Paris Holiday (1957) and Call Me Bwana (1963).

Stagnation