bottled up (Meaning)

bottled up

to keep (a feeling or emotion) inside instead of expressing it

The shattered glass scattered across the floor, revealing a bottled-up rage that had erupted.
Years of pent-up emotions were bottled up inside her, threatening to overflow.
The child's bottled-up sadness manifested as unexpected outbursts of anger.
The therapist helped the client identify and release the bottled-up trauma that had been holding them back.
Her laughter was a facade, a desperate attempt to conceal the bottled-up pain she was enduring.
The pressure of expectations had created a bottled-up anxiety within him, causing him to tremble uncontrollably.
The secrets they kept bottled up were slowly eating away at their relationship.
The crime had bottled up a storm of fear and uncertainty throughout the community.
She yearned to unbottle her frustrations, but fear held her back.
The bottled-up grief from her loss threatened to consume her, leaving her feeling numb and empty.

to keep (a feeling or emotion) inside instead of expressing it

choked (back), held back, repressed, restrained, measured, reined (in), constrained, pocketed, interrupted, governed

lost,liberated, took out, unleashed, expressed, loosened, vented, loosed,aired

The shattered glass scattered across the floor, revealing a bottled-up rage that had erupted.

Years of pent-up emotions were bottled up inside her, threatening to overflow.

The child's bottled-up sadness manifested as unexpected outbursts of anger.

The therapist helped the client identify and release the bottled-up trauma that had been holding them back.