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单词 bottle up
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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
bottle up vb (tr, adverb)
  1. to restrain (powerful emotion)
  2. to keep (an army or other force) contained or trapped
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
bot•tle1 /ˈbɑtəl/USA pronunciation   n., v., -tled, -tling. 
n. [countable]
  1. a container for holding liquids, having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic:Bring your empty bottles back to the store.
  2. the contents or capacity of such a container: [to drink a whole bottle of wine.]
  3. bottled milk formulas or substitutes given to infants instead of mother's milk: raised on the bottle.

v. 
  1. [+ object] to put into or seal in a bottle: to bottle grape juice.
  2. bottle up, [+ up + object]
    • to hold in, control, or keep back:Don't bottle up your anger; let it out.[~ + [object + up][to bottle it up inside.]
Idioms
  1. Idioms, Slang Terms hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess:He's hitting the bottle again; you can tell from the way he walks.


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
bot•tle1  (botl),USA pronunciation n., v., -tled, -tling. 
n. 
  1. a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
  2. the contents of such a container;
    as much as such a container contains:a bottle of wine.
  3. bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk:raised on the bottle.
  4. hit the bottle, [Slang.]to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.
  5. the bottle, intoxicating beverages;
    liquor:He became addicted to the bottle.

v.t. 
  1. to put into or seal in a bottle:to bottle grape juice.
  2. British Termsto preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.
  3. bottle up:
    • to repress, control, or restrain:He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.
    • to enclose or entrap:Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.
  • Medieval Latin butticula, equivalent. to Late Latin butti(s) butt4 + -cula -cule1
  • Anglo-French; Old French bo(u)teille
  • Middle English botel 1325–75
bottle•like′, adj. 

bot•tle2  (botl),USA pronunciation n. [Archit.]
  1. Architectureboltel (def. 2).

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