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.

Examples of bottle up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Now, a week ahead of the show’s anniversary, the beauty celebrity bottled up her iconic runway moment into a single-step peel-off mask: the Skin Fetish: Glass 001 Artistry Mask. —India Espy-Jones, Essence, 24 Jan. 2025

If a nominee is bottled up in committee by an adverse vote, Thune could still try to bring the candidate to the floor for a vote by offering a motion or resolution to discharge the nominee under Senate Rule XVII. —Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025

Defensively, Minnesota entirely bottled up the Knicks. —Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 17 Jan. 2025

Many others are bottled up at Port Sudan, the Red Sea city from which the central government operates, since Khartoum remains a war zone. —Karl Vick, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025