v. Also 7 embogge, imbog, 9 embogue. [f. EN- + BOG sb.] trans. To plunge into a bog: to hamper in a bog, lit. and fig.
1602. Best, in Farr, S. P. Eliz. (1845), II. 472. Imbogg’d he shall be, where nought he shall see But horror and feare.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xii. 64. He was … constrained … to Embogge himselfe in the Bankers and Vsurers bookes.
1752. Wesley, in Wks., 1872, II. 256. Attempting to ride over the common … my mare was quickly imbogged.
1867. N. Brit. Daily Mail, 30 Sept. The valley was so soft that the big guns would have become embogged.
1888. Daily Tel., 1 June, 5/2. Embogued in a morass.
