Definition
To keep suppressed and hidden.
In Context
- "Emotions are often bottled up rather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life."
- "Pennsylvania gay activists were taken by surprise at the bill's assignment to the Labor Relations Committee. They had hoped to "bottle up" the bill in another House committee but an early poll of Labor Relations members indicates that attempts to stop the bill may now be more difficult."
- "Those brave students who laid down their lives against the tanks of Tiananmen Square confirmed what I'd always believed: that no totalitarian society can bottle up the instinctive drive of men and women to be free, and that once you give a captive people a little freedom, they'll demand more."
- "Young man in need of someone to share all this bottled up love with."