Antonyms for bottle up

Grammar : Verb

Spell : bot-l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɒt l

Definition of bottle up

Origin : mid-14c., originally of leather, from Old French boteille (12c., Modern French bouteille), from Vulgar Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis "a cask," which is perhaps from Greek. The bottle, figurative for "liquor," is from 17c.

verb hold in check

Example sentences :

Bottle up your metaphors and give us a page of business-like fluency!
Extract from : « Jack of Both Sides » by Florence Coombe

Every exit had been cut off to bottle up the Imperial cortege.
Extract from : « Despoilers of the Golden Empire » by Gordon Randall Garrett

However, Stansfield has to bottle up his feelings, and, behold!
Extract from : « The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's » by Talbot Baines Reed

How many are there who bottle up their wrath all the day long, and uncork it when they get home!
Extract from : « Humanity in the City » by E. H. Chapin

The specialist was out, and he had to bottle up his rage until the morning.
Extract from : « The Angel and the Author - and Others » by Jerome K. Jerome

"You bottle up when it comes to that," said Sally philosophically.
Extract from : « Somehow Good » by William de Morgan

He held the bottle up and squinted through it, sighing gustily.
Extract from : « Deadly City » by Paul W. Fairman

I could see myself in a new suit, having a bottle up at the Haymarket.
Extract from : « McAllister and His Double » by Arthur Train

Give some to the boys outside, then bring the bottle up to us.
Extract from : « Cudjo's Cave » by J. T. Trowbridge

But the year has been a sobering one, and what used to flash, they bottle up.
Extract from : « Kenny » by Leona Dalrymple

Synonyms for bottle up

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