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to bottle up
[phrase form: bottle]
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to suppress emotions, desires, or impulses instead of expressing them
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.
As a child, he learned to be a silent sufferer, bottling up his emotions and keeping his problems to himself.
She couldn't keep her frustrations bottled up any longer, so she approached her colleague to have it out and clear the air.
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