Usually means: Overwhelmed or stuck, progress hindered.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (bogged down)

▸ adjective:  Stuck, as if in a bog.
▸ adjective:  (idiomatic, figuratively) Stuck; mired, as in detail, difficulty; delayed or made slower.

Similar:
belaired, boggy, boggish, deep, boglike, cloggy, clogged, quagmired, heavy, slumpy, more...

Opposite:
unencumbered, unburdened, free, liberated

Types:
overwhelmed, stuck, confused, frustrated, baffled, more...

Phrases:
be bogged down, been bogged down, being bogged down, get bogged down, gets bogged down, more...

Adjectives:
bog, quagmired, fell, addle, slumpy, rubbishy, muddy, wallow, foul, slavery

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Similar:
belaired, boggy, boggish, deep, boglike, cloggy, clogged, quagmired, heavy, slumpy, more...

Opposite:
unencumbered, unburdened, free, liberated

Types:
overwhelmed, stuck, confused, frustrated, baffled, more...

Phrases:
be bogged down, been bogged down, being bogged down, get bogged down, gets bogged down, getting bogged down, got bogged down, is bogged down, was bogged down, were bogged down, bogged down by, more...

Adjectives:
bog, quagmired, fell, addle, slumpy, rubbishy, muddy, wallow, foul, slavery



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