"bottle up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bottle up.ogg Forms: bottles up [present, singular, third-person], bottling up [participle, present], bottled up [participle, past], bottled up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bottle up (third-person singular simple present bottles up, present participle bottling up, simple past and past participle bottled up), {{tlb|en|transitive}} (transitive)
  1. To put into bottles. Tags: transitive Translations (to put into bottles): бутилирам (butiliram) (Bulgarian), embouteiller (French), embotellar (Galician), Flaschen befüllen (German), in Flaschen füllen (German), imbottigliare (Italian), pātara (Maori), engarrafar (Portuguese), embotellar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-bottle_up-en-verb-tTa9TAwS Disambiguation of 'to put into bottles': 94 1 1 1 3
  2. To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage. Tags: transitive Translations (to prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage): embouteiller (French), einkesseln (German), festhalten (German), zurückhalten (German), imbottigliare (Italian), embotellar (Spanish)
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  3. (idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (to keep suppressed and hidden): скривам (skrivam) (Bulgarian), прикривам (prikrivam) (Bulgarian), réprimer (French), enfouir (French), unterdrücken (German), anstauen (German), zurückhalten (German), verdrängen (German), kurupena (english: refers to feelings) (Maori), stänga inne (Swedish), undertrycka (Swedish)
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  4. (informal) To comprehensively defeat. Tags: informal, transitive
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  5. (sports, slang) To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action. Tags: slang, transitive Categories (topical): Sports
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Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2023 March 25, “San Diego State ousts Alabama as all four No. 1 seeds fall short of Elite 8 for 1st time”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:",
          "text": "Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night, bottling up All-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16.",
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          "text": "Arguably the most important sequence of the game came with less than 30 seconds to play and the Nuggets clinging to a 90-89 lead. Butler drove to the rim but got bottled up in the post by Murray and Jokic then tried to find teammate Max Strus in the corner, but the ball was stolen by Nuggets swingman Kentavious Caldwell-Pope -- and the Heat were forced to foul.",
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        "(sports, slang) To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action."
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        "To put into bottles."
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          "ref": "1990, Alan Evans, Orphans of the Storm, London: Coronet Books, →ISBN, page 136:",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "1975 December 27, “Anti-Gay Bill on the Move”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 26, page 3:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1990, Ronald Reagan, [Robert Lindsey], An American Life, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 373:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1985 December 7, Merrill Symonds, “Personal advvertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 12:",
          "text": "Young man in need of someone to share all this bottled up love with.",
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          "ref": "2011, Robin Waterfield, Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 39:",
          "text": "Leosthenes defeated Antipater in battle—the first defeat of a Macedonian army for thirty years—and bottled him up in the town of Lamia.",
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        "(informal) To comprehensively defeat."
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        "(sports, slang) To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action."
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "butiliram",
      "sense": "to put into bottles",
      "word": "бутилирам"
    },
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to put into bottles",
      "word": "embouteiller"
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      "sense": "to put into bottles",
      "word": "embotellar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to put into bottles",
      "word": "Flaschen befüllen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to put into bottles",
      "word": "in Flaschen füllen"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to put into bottles",
      "word": "imbottigliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to put into bottles",
      "word": "pātara"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to put into bottles",
      "word": "engarrafar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to put into bottles",
      "word": "embotellar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage",
      "word": "embouteiller"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage",
      "word": "einkesseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage",
      "word": "festhalten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage",
      "word": "zurückhalten"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage",
      "word": "imbottigliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to prevent enemy vessels of leaving an anchorage",
      "word": "embotellar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "skrivam",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "скривам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prikrivam",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "прикривам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "réprimer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "enfouir"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "unterdrücken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "anstauen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "zurückhalten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "verdrängen"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "english": "refers to feelings",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "kurupena"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "stänga inne"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to keep suppressed and hidden",
      "word": "undertrycka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bottle up"
}

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