bottle up
verb
bottled up; bottling up; bottles up
: to keep (a feeling or emotion) inside instead of expressing it : to hide (a feeling or emotion)
She's kept her feelings about the accident bottled up for too long.
I know he's angry, but he bottles it up inside instead of talking to someone about it.
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After logging only a secondary assist in Game 2 while being mostly bottled up in a 4-2 loss, Kaprizov was held off the stat sheet completely in Game 3 as the Wild suffered a crushing 4-3 loss in double overtime early Thursday morning at Grand Casino Arena. —
Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026 El Niño usually pushes the polar jet stream further north, keeping the most brutal Arctic air bottled up in Canada. —Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026 The Celtics also bottled up Maxey, the NBA’s fifth-leading scorer during the regular season. —Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026 Society still tries to push men to bottle up their feelings and not mention anything. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bottle up
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Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 23 Apr. 2026 El Niño usually pushes the polar jet stream further north, keeping the most brutal Arctic air bottled up in Canada. —Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026 The Celtics also bottled up Maxey, the NBA’s fifth-leading scorer during the regular season. —Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026 Society still tries to push men to bottle up their feelings and not mention anything. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bottle up
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“Bottle up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/dictionary/bottle%20up. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.
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