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bottleneck

verb C2
  1. To slow by causing a bottleneck. (transitive) · The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
  2. To form a bottleneck. (intransitive) · The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.

He/she/it bottlenecks · Past bottlenecked · Past participle bottlenecked · -ing form bottlenecking

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Verb forms

Base form
bottleneck
He/she/it
bottlenecks
Past
bottlenecked
Past participle
bottlenecked
-ing form
bottlenecking

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