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bottle up

VERB
hold in check
Synonyms
STRONGEST
repress suppress
WEAK
box up bring to naught check collar contain coop up cork corner cover up cramp curb enclose entrap hold back hold down hold in keep back keep feeling inside oneself keep secret restrain restrict shut in trap
Antonyms
STRONGEST
let go
WEAK
confide reveal tell

Example Sentences

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So the establishment decided to bottle up the flavours of its "fermentation lab" and "test kitchen".

From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025

We lost and were gutted, but we had to park it and bottle up that feeling of disappointment and use it as added fuel.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025

So Washington State’s challenge, among others, will be to find a way to do both — to bottle up the run and contain the pass.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

If you could bottle up Geneva sunshine and turn it into music, it’d probably sound a lot like Varnish.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2023

They had bottoms so you could open the bottle up and take the ship out whenever you felt like it.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel