Translation for "bottle up" to spanish

Bottle up

verb

• contener

Translation examples

contener verb

Bottling up emotion, holding such things inside, that can be dangerous.
Contener las emociones, retenerlas dentro, eso puede ser peligroso.

My throat hurt from the tears I held bottled up tight inside.
Me dolió la garganta de contener las lágrimas amontonadas.

Put two lines of archers on the Inner Wall to bottle up the gate entrance.
Poned dos líneas de arqueros sobre la Muralla Interior para contener la entrada.

We were getting outside so we could continue our fight, which could only be bottled up for so long.
Salimos para seguir nuestra pelea, que no podíamos contener.

The Moties persuaded Dr. Buckman that Mote system could be bottled up for between five hundred and two thousand years.
Los pajeños persuadieron al doctor Buckman de que se podía contener al sistema de la Paja por un tiempo que iba desde los quinientos hasta los dos mil años.

Miss Marlow, having discharged much of the wrath she had been obliged to keep bottled up for so many painful hours, had begun to feel very low.
La señorita Marlow, que ya había descargado gran parte de la ira que se había visto obligada a contener durante tantas y tan dolorosas horas, había empezado a deprimirse.

She sobbed, her head cluttered with too much fear and anger and jealousy and horror and confusion, all of it writhing and squirming in her thoughts until she couldn’t keep her frustrated screams bottled up any longer.
Sollozó, el miedo, la rabia, los celos, el horror y la confusión se mezclaban con sus pensamientos de tal manera que no pudo contener más sus gritos de frustración.