bottle up

English

Verb

bottle up

1. (transitive) Put into bottles
2. (transitive) Prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage
3. (transitive, idiomatic) Keep suppressed and hidden

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

Translations

Put into bottles

• Bulgarian:, бутилирам (bg) (butiliram)

• Portuguese: engarrafar (pt)
• Spanish: embotellar (es)

Prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage

• Spanish: embotellar (es)

Keep suppressed and hidden

• Bulgarian:, скривам (bg) (skrivam), прикривам (bg) (prikrivam)