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to bottle up
[phrase form: bottle]
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to suppress emotions, desires, or impulses instead of expressing them
bottle up
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Example
They are really good at bottling up their true feelings in public.
He tends to bottle up his anger until it becomes overwhelming.
He's been bottling up his stress at work for too long.
He kept his feelings bottled up within, rarely sharing them with others.
As a child, he learned to be a silent sufferer, bottling up his emotions and keeping his problems to himself.
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