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Noun bottle-neck has 1 sense
- constriction, bottleneck, chokepoint - a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
--1 is a kind of narrowing
Verb bottle-neck has 2 senses
- 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
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