If a plan or process bogs down or if something bogs it down, it is delayed and no progress is made. [V n P] [V P]
We intended from the very beginning to bog the prosecution down over who did this…
我们从一开始就打算延缓对责任人提出诉讼。
The talks have bogged down over the issue of military reform.
谈判在军队改革问题上陷入了僵局