Answer to "Encumbers, with “down”" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word BOGS … which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.

Encumbers, with “down” crossword clue answers

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Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BOGS …	100 %	8

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Encumbers, with “down”

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• encumbrance
• bemire
• bog
• lumber
• tail
• tails
• heavy
• bemoil
• incumber
• jettison
• burden
• cumber

Crossword Answer definitions

BOGS … noun

1. An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp.
2. Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
3. The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland.
4. A place to defecate: originally specifically a latrine or outhouse but now used for any toilet.
5. An act or instance of defecation.
6. A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

BOGS … verb

1. (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
2. To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
3. (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland.
4. To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
5. (originally vulgar Britain) To defecate, to void one's bowels.
6. (originally vulgar Britain) To cover or spray with excrement.
7. To make a mess of something.

BOGS … noun

1. Puffery, boastfulness.

BOGS … verb

1. To provoke, to bug.

BOGS … verb

1. (usually with "off") To go away.

BOGS … noun

1. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
2. Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug.
3. Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
4. Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
5. (chiefly computing and engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
6. A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it
7. An enthusiasm for something; an obsession
8. A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
9. A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
10. A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
11. A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it
12. A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
13. A semi-automated telegraph key.
14. Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
15. ("the bug") HIV.
16. A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
17. A trilobite.
18. A young apprentice jockey.

BOGS … noun

1. A microfossil, particularly a foraminiferan.

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