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ruuhkauttaa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bottleneck noun A point where a process, road, or system narrows and slows everything passing through it.
  • congest noun A farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.
  • pile noun A number of things heaped or stacked on top of each other.

Senses

ruuhkauttaa is used for these senses in English:

  • bottleneck (transitive) To slow by causing a bottleneck.
  • congest (transitive) To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
  • pile (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate

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