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bottled-up

adjective as in pent-up

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She charged Brandon with keeping his emotions bottled up, and Danielle with failing to give him opportunities to vent.

We try to keep that bottled up, but society and being in poverty will cause you to push that button.

In so doing, they vent the frustrations they kept bottled up while their side was in power.

As speaker of the Florida House, he had bottled up six bills that would have cracked down on illegal immigration.

Whatever he felt he usually kept bottled up inside, no matter how it hurt.

And Lady Hartledon bottled up her curiosity and her wrath, and waited with what patience she possessed.

Jacks and Bisbee tried to keep us bottled up in a hole in the rocks all night; but we managed to get away.

"Ye can't keep a rid-head bottled up," Larry Malone, another member of the company, shouted exultingly.

Then we've got him bottled up unless he got out of the shaft!

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bottle up, such as: repress, suppress, box up, bring to naught, check, and collar.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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