bottle up
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Paul Brunner spoke over his shoulder, "In the last war the cruiser Königsberg hid in an African river and made her repairs." / Kurt answered, "Yes, sir, but she didn't get out again. The Royal Navy bottled her up and finally destroyed her.""
- "Emotions are often bottled up rather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life."
- "Pennsylvania gay activists were taken by surprise at the bill's assignment to the Labor Relations Committee. They had hoped to "bottle up" the bill in another House committee but an early poll of Labor Relations members indicates that attempts to stop the bill may now be more difficult."
- "Those brave students who laid down their lives against the tanks of Tiananmen Square confirmed what I'd always believed: that no totalitarian society can bottle up the instinctive drive of men and women to be free, and that once you give a captive people a little freedom, they'll demand more."
- "Young man in need of someone to share all this bottled up love with."
- "Leosthenes defeated Antipater in battle—the first defeat of a Macedonian army for thirty years—and bottled him up in the town of Lamia."