bottle up

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === bottle up (third-person singular simple present bottles up, present participle bottling up, simple past and past participle bottled up) (transitive) To put into bottles. To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage. (idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden. (informal) To comprehensively defeat. (sports, slang) To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action. ==== Translations ==== === References === “bottle up”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “bottle up v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present