pent-up
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- adjective
- /ˈpɛntˌʌp/
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- Release your pent-up feelings.
- pent-up anger
- pent-up frustration
- pent-up demand
I, I, I don't think there's this huge pent up demand for Bitcoin.
- I, I, I don't think there's this huge pent up demand for Bitcoin.
- But fear not, we are back and all that pent up excitement and anticipation will soon burst forth.
- And there were times when I can, I was writing stuff and crying on the paper because all those pent up emotions were in there.
- So there was all of this pent up demand to get cheaper freight from the countryside into cities and between cities that typically had to go by rail.
- But now that the world is opening up again, it's almost like people have this pent up emotion globally.
- Which it's possible that this is going to create sort of three to four months of pent up seller supply.
- I mean, people were so pent up that going back to the normal, what happened?
- But it's not just that, it's also that we are seeing a reduction in people's pent up savings.
- You know this, this pent up desire accelerates getting married.
- And they had a lot of anger, pent up anger.
- I think there's been pent up demand, rather necessarily greed to actually own your own content.
- It's, you know, can be great, But I think that once we get past this, people are there's so much pent up.
- But it was pent up, pent up, you know, and so, you know, I mean, I don't like drinking.
- Although historically way more so we understood why there was all this pent up protesting and stuff, but to take it to the extreme they did then it's absurd.
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Fighting an instinct to yell and vent some of the pent-up emotion, he started running.
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But now that the world is opening up again, it's almost like people have this pent up emotion globally.
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Too bad all that pent-up energy is going to waste.
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- You got a lot of pent-up energy!
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A bit pent-up maybe... like you need to release something.
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Despite all the problems we are seeing today, pent-up demand is creating the next housing boom.
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And there were times when I can, I was writing stuff and crying on the paper because all those pent up emotions were in there.
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You have an awful lot of pent-up anger, don't you?
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Too much pent-up tension.
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After months of isolation, she felt a surge of pent-up excitement as she finally reunited with her friends.
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Etymology
The word pent-up comes from the idea of being kept in a small space. The part pen means 'an enclosed place', for example a pig pen, and up adds the sense of being fully held, so pent-up feelings are 'kept inside' and not released.