bottle up

phrasal 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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Be transparent with each other now so that there’s less weird energy bottled up between you later. —

Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Nov. 2024 With 5,000 whopping lumens, this thing is ridiculously bright, like its own super moon bottled up in a tube. —

Lisa Jhung, Outside Online, 2 Nov. 2024 Starting with some of the fiercest matchups—like Florida vs. Georgia and the Packers vs. Bears—Fireball hopes to bottle up enough tears to create this limited-edition whisky by next season. —

Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 For now, Jimmy has managed to successfully bottle up these same speculations, distracted by his return to Jimmying. —

Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bottle up