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Definition of Pent-up
1. Adjective. Characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions. "Repressed rage turned his face scarlet"
Definition of Pent-up
1. Adjective. not expressed ¹
2. Adjective. repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pent-up
Literary usage of Pent-up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1912)
"^Cassius lets go all his pent-up anger with some of his emotion, but a good deal
of his speech is what is sometimes called "bluff. ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1885)
"the tendency manifested by the pent-up products of inflammation to escape through
the posterior wall of the external auditory canal by perforating the ..."
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