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Verb: bottle up
  1. Control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behaviour
    - inhibit, suppress

Derived forms: bottles up, bottled up, bottling up

Type of: hold back, keep, keep back, restrain

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bottle gourd
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bottle screw
bottle shop
bottle tree
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bottlebrush
bottlebrush buckeye
bottlecap
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bottled water
bottle-fed
bottlefeed
bottleful
bottle-grass
bottle-green