bottle up

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

The Celtics also bottled up Maxey, the NBA’s fifth-leading scorer during the regular season. —Zack Cox, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026

Society still tries to push men to bottle up their feelings and not mention anything. —Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2026

Vacation bottled up the cult-favorite scent of their body SPF into a best-selling airy eau de toilette—and best-selling isn’t an understatement, with 38K glowing Amazon reviews. —Kiana Murden, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2026

Then the Iran war bottled up shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, restricting global fertilizer supplies and sending fertilizer prices sky high. —ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for bottle up

• buttercup
• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup