bottle up

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To put into bottles. transitive
  2. To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage. transitive
    — Paul Brunner spoke over his shoulder, "In the last war the cruiser Königsberg hid in an African river and made her repairs." / Kurt answered, "Yes, sir, but she didn't get out again. The Royal Navy bottled her up and finally destroyed her."
  3. To keep suppressed and hidden. idiomatic,transitive
    — Emotions are often bottled up rather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life.
  4. To comprehensively defeat. informal,transitive
    — Leosthenes defeated Antipater in battle—the first defeat of a Macedonian army for thirty years—and bottled him up in the town of Lamia.
  5. To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action. slang,transitive
    — Darrion Trammell and San Diego State used a dominant defensive performance to knock top overall seed Alabama out of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night, bottling up All-America freshman Brandon Miller in a 71-64 victory in the Sweet 16.

词形变化

bottles up present,singular,third-person bottling up participle,present bottled up participle,past bottled up past
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