pent-up
not vented or expressed; held inside; restrained; curbed: pent-up emotions;pent-up rage.
Origin of pent-up
1Other words for pent-up
bottled-up, checked, confined, repressed, suppressed |
Words Nearby pent-up
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How to use pent-up in a sentence
In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.
Annoying Airport Delays Might Prevent You From Becoming the Next AirAsia 8501 | Clive Irving | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTMany pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them.
Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | Alex Haley | January 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps so much so that he aroused whatever cruelty and anger and lunacy that Hernandez may have had pent up.
Is it the Internet as an escape valve for decades of pent-up rebellion against political correctness?
All that pent-up uncertainty—a “bonus,” by definition, is discretionary—creates paranoia pretty much all year.
Perhaps the words let loose the emotion, though of different kinds, pent up behind their silence.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodIt was when one of the table-legs overturned the swill-pail that the long pent-up storm burst in a torrent of invective.
Instead, therefore, of receiving her former lover with dangerous pent-up fires, Lilian now feels pity for him.
The Autobiography of a Play | Bronson HowardAt last his pent-up affections gave way, and he sought his chamber and wept there in secret.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume II | John LordAnother moment and he was in her arms, silent, speechless, with long arrears of pent-up emotion.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. Farrar
British Dictionary definitions for pent-up
not released; repressed: pent-up emotions
kept unwillingly: I've been pent up in this office for over a year
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