bottleneck

Nouns

  • (n) a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel chokepoint, constriction,
  • (n) the narrow part of a bottle near the top

Verbs

  • (v) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction
    • His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system
  • (v) become narrow, like a bottleneck
    • Right by the bridge, the road bottlenecks

Synonyms

chokepoint constriction

Words of close approximity