- constriction, bottleneck, chokepoint - a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
--1 is a kind of narrowing
Derived form: verb bottleneck2
- bottleneck - slow down or impede by creating an obstruction; "His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system"
--1 is one way to obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymie, stymy, embarrass
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- bottleneck - become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"
--2 is one way to narrow, contract
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun bottleneck1
Something ----s
- bottleneck - become narrow, like a bottleneck; "Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks"