to bottle up
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5.6
- phrasal verb
- /ˈbɑːtəl ʌp/
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- I've bottled up my emotions for so long, I had to speak or explode.
- bottled-up emotions
- bottled-up feelings
- bottle up your anger
It got to a point where where things were just bottling up and I just wasn't happy.
- It got to a point where where things were just bottling up and I just wasn't happy.
- Londoners are frustrated and stressed out, which of course they'll bottle up like everything else.
- It's like you're not going to live your whole life bottling up all your traumas, all your feelings.
- But we do get angry in these relationships and may often keep it bottled up for a long time.
- Did you ever understand the trauma that he was trying to bottle up using alcohol?
- It's always important to talk to someone and not bottle up your feelings, which is why Better Help is here to help.
- Today's sponsor of the podcast is Better Help is always important to be talking about how you feel and not let things bottle up inside.
- But it was, I think it was probably an outpouring of desire that it had for all these years that we just was bottled up.
Examples
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Did you ever understand the trauma that he was trying to bottle up using alcohol?
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Furthermore, the more you bottle up emotions, the more likely you are to cry at work.
Blog text (5) -
It's always important to talk to someone and not bottle up your feelings, which is why Better Help is here to help.
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But some some stuff I bottle up, some stuff I bottle up and keep to myself.
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But we do get angry in these relationships and may often keep it bottled up for a long time.
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Why do you keep your feelings all bottled up inside, huh?
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What had he been bottling up all this time?
Fiction book (1997) -
You seem to have some anger and frustration bottled up inside you.
Blog text (1) -
It's easy to keep our emotions and experiences bottled up, but by sharing them, you're helping so many other women.
Blog text (29) -
It's important to express your emotions instead of trying to bottle up your feelings.
Synonyms
108
4.2
Keep yourself from showing feelings or telling others
88
5.8
To hold back feelings or reactions
75
6.6
Keep strong feelings or memories from coming into the mind
65
4.5
To stop yourself from showing strong feelings
49
5.3
To hold back a feeling or reaction so it does not show
39
6.0
To stop a feeling or sound from being shown
11
6.3
Make someone unable to act naturally or show feelings
5
7.0
To take back words you said
4
5.1
Stop yourself from showing an emotion like tears or laughter
4
7.0
Stop yourself from showing a feeling when you want to cry
2
7.7
To stop yourself from showing strong feelings like sadness or anger
To keep feelings inside instead of showing them
To hide your feelings so others cannot see them
To hide your feelings so other people cannot see them
To stop yourself from showing angry feelings
To hide your feelings or change your look again after briefly showing them
Antonyms
How Suppressed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to keep emotions from being expressed' is directly derivable from combining 'bottle' (to put into a bottle/contain) with the particle 'up' (indicating containment or completion), so the image of putting feelings into a bottle makes the sense transparent. This container metaphor and the particle's containment sense are common in English and cross-linguistically accessible, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrasal verb bottle up gives a clear picture: you put feelings into a bottle and seal it up so they stay inside. So the phrase means 'to keep emotions from being shown or released'.