Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To put into bottles.

    Flaschen befüllen, in Flaschen füllen

  2. (transitive)To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.

    einkesseln, festhalten, zurückhalten

  3. (idiomatic, transitive)To keep suppressed and hidden.

    Emotions are often bottled up rather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life.

    unterdrücken, anstauen, zurückhalten

  4. (informal, transitive)To comprehensively defeat.

  5. (slang, transitive)To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action.

More definitions
  • consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior

Examples

10 sentences
  1. I found this bottle washed up on the beach.

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  2. You shouldn't keep your feelings bottled up.

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  3. I often kept my feelings bottled up inside.

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  4. I don't believe in keeping my feelings bottled up.

    ruЯ не думаю, что сумею сдержать свои чувства.

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  5. In the kitchen, the empty beer bottles are piling up.

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Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to put into bottles:
to prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage:
to keep suppressed and hidden:

Forms

bottles up, bottling up, bottled up, bottled up
Base formbottle up · to bottle up
3rd person singularbottles up
Present participlebottling up
Past simplebottled up
Past participlebottled up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybottle up
he, she, itbottles up

Past simpleLesson

all personsbottled up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bottled up
he, she, ithas bottled up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bottle up

Phrasal verbs

5 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior:inhibitsuppress

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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