VERB | social | bottle up, inhibit, suppress | control and refrain from showing |
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Meaning | Control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonyms | inhibit, suppress | |
Narrower | choke | check or slow down the action or effect of |
smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress | conceal or hide | |
stifle, dampen | smother or suppress | |
Spanish | refrenar, reprimir, suprimir | |
Catalan | refrenar, reprimir |
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