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n. A narrow or obstructed section, as of a highway or a pipeline.

n. A point or an area of traffic congestion.

n. A hindrance to progress or production.

n. The narrow part of a bottle near the top.

n. Music A style of guitar playing in which an object, such as a piece of glass or metal, is passed across the strings to achieve a gliding sound.

v. To slow down or impede by creating an obstruction.

n. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.

n. In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.

n. Any delay; part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.

v. To slow by causing a bottleneck.

v. To form a bottleneck.

a location or situation in which otherwise rapid progress is impeded.

a point at which road traffic slows due to congestion or narrowing of the roadway.

an impasse.

a narrowing.

v. same as obstruct.

verb-intransitive. to become narrower as one approaches a point; -- said of roads.

v. slow down or impede by creating an obstruction

n. the narrow part of a bottle near the top

v. become narrow, like a bottleneck

n. a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

"Renowned evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson has propounded what he terms the bottleneck theory: that maximum pressure on the natural world will occur this century as human population peaks, after which a declining human population will supposedly ease that pressure."

bottlenecked    bottlenecking    bottlenecks   

stymy    block    hinder    Embarrass    obstruct    blockade    stymie    part    portion    narrow   

obstruct   

impasse   

ed    shortfall    outages    drawback    vulnerabilities    acquirer