BOTTLE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bottle up mean? 

• BOTTLE UP (verb)
  The verb BOTTLE UP has 1 sense:

1. consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior

  Familiarity information: BOTTLE UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTTLE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bottle up; inhibit; suppress

Context example:

he let his anger bottle up until he exploded

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bottle up"):

dampen; stifle (suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity)

muffle; repress; smother; stifle; strangle (suppress in order to conceal or hide)

choke (check or slow down the action or effect of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

The size can vary from that of a small thermos bottle up to that which may be mounted upon a large truck (also known as a 'cryogenic truck').

(Dewar, NCI Thesaurus)

Any possible visitors to the exoplanet, called Kepler-13Ab, would need to bottle up some of that sunscreen, because they won't find it on the sizzling hot, daytime side, which always faces its host star.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

Your mother will come, I know, and the late train is in at two A.M. I shall go for her, and you've only got to bottle up your rapture, and keep Beth quiet till that blessed lady gets here.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)