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Past tense of bog

regular verb

The past tense of bog is bogged. The past participle is also bogged.

Forms of bog

Base form (V1)bog /bɔɡ/
Past tense (V2)bogged
Past participle (V3)bogged
Present participlebogging
Third person singularbogs

Bogged in a sentence

  • To be 'bogged down' or 'mired down' is to be mired, generally in the 'wet valleys' in the spring.1928, American Dialect Society, American Speech, volume IV, page 132
  • We've gotten bogged down in trifling details.From the entry bog down
  • I hope that they aren’t too bogged in with the snow.2010, Mary Ridgeway, How Brave the Irish Heart, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry bog in
  • The vehicle then got bogged in by tidal movements, Sgt Sears said.2008 December 16, Bonnie Malkin, “Man survives nine days stuck in Australian Outback”, in Daily Telegraph. From the entry bog in
  • Are we entitled to so define, or is Hook bogged down in a form of "persuasive definitioneering"?1968 (1972?), "Definitioneering: An Article-review of Sidney Hook's Academic Freedom," The Philosophy Forum, supplement 11, nos. 1-2…. From the entry definitioneering

Meaning of bog

  1. noun An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
  2. noun An acidic, chiefly rain-fed (ombrotrophic), peat-forming wetland. (Contrast an alkaline fen, and swamps and marshes.).
  3. noun Boggy ground.

Full definition of bog

Questions about the past tense of bog

What is the past tense of bog?
The past tense of bog is bogged.
What is the past participle of bog?
The past participle of bog is bogged.
Is bog a regular or irregular verb?
Bog is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bog (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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