bog down

Verb

• cause to slow down or get stuck
  • The vote would bog down the house
    

• be unable to move further
  • The car bogged down in the sand
    

• cause to get stuck as if in a mire
  • The mud mired our cart
    

• get stuck while doing something
  • She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  bog , grind to a halt , get stuck , mire