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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Regardless, leading running back Brian Robinson Jr. (five carries for 10 yards) has largely been bottled up after Washington’s Week 14 bye. —

Ben Standig, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025 Fast forward to today when Thompson is one of the most important players on a Rockets team which has hovered amidst the conference elite, serving as a utility knife for head coach Ime Udoka, bottling up the opposing teams’ best scorers, but primarily as a wing. —

Rahat Huq, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024 The rebels had been bottled up in Idlib for years before fighters broke out in a shock offensive and marched across Syria in 10 days. —

Albert Aji and Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024 Another buyer was influenced by Oprah to pick this bottle up. —

Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for bottle up