All bottlenecking synonyms

verb bottlenecking

• choke — When you choke or when something chokes you, you cannot breathe properly or get enough air into your lungs.
• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• squelch — to strike or press with crushing force; crush down; squash.
• bridle — A bridle is a set of straps that is put around a horse's head and mouth so that the person riding or driving the horse can control it.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• fetter — a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
• snafu — a badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation: A ballot snafu in the election led to a recount. Synonyms: snarl, bedlam, tumult, disarray, disorder, confusion, mess; foul-up. Antonyms: order, efficiency, calm.
• resist — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• muzzle — the mouth, or end for discharge, of the barrel of a gun, pistol, etc.
• stymie — Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball's lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt.
• debar — If you are debarred from doing something, you are prevented from doing it by a law or regulation.
• crab — A crab is a sea creature with a flat round body covered by a shell, and five pairs of legs with large claws on the front pair. Crabs usually move sideways.
• contravene — To contravene a law or rule means to do something that is forbidden by the law or rule.
• balk — If you balk at something, you definitely do not want to do it or to let it happen.
• offset — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
• hog-tie — If someone hog-ties an animal or a person, they tie their legs together, or they tie their arms and legs together.
• trammel — Usually, trammels. a hindrance or impediment to free action; restraint: the trammels of custom.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• nip in the bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
• hold down — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• hold in — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• play for time — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• rein in — control, restrain
• slow down — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• shut out — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
• louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
• get in the way — be an obstacle