pent-up English

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pent-up

— adjective (= repressed) characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions her severe upbringing had left her inhibited a very inhibited young man, anxious and ill at ease their reactions were partly the product of pent-up emotions repressed rage turned his face scarlet

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withheld

repressed

inhibited

barred