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Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
Julianna Baggott

Meaning of "pent-up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PENT-UP

pent-up play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PENT-UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pent-Up is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PENT-UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pent-up in the English dictionary

The definition of pent-up in the dictionary is not released; repressed. Other definition of pent-up is kept unwillingly.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PENT-UP

pent
pentabarbital
pentachlorophenol
pentachord
pentacle
pentacrinoid
pentact
pentactinal
pentacyclic
pentad
pentadactyl
pentadactyle
pentadactylic
pentadactylism
pentadactylous
pentadactyly
pentadelphous
pentadic
pentagon
pentagonal

WORDS THAT END LIKE PENT-UP

beat-up
built-up
bust-up
cut-up
dust-up
fit-up
get-up
let-up
set-up
sit-up
split-up
start-up
well-brought-up
wrought-up

Synonyms and antonyms of pent-up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PENT-UP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pent-up» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of pent-up

Translation of «pent-up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PENT-UP

Find out the translation of pent-up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pent-up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pent-up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

被压抑的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

reprimido
570 millions of speakers

English

pent-up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मन में दबा हुआ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المكبوت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неудовлетворенный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

reprimido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দমিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

refoulé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

terpendam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

aufgestaut
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

抑えられた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

억눌린
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pent-up
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bị dồn nén
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூடப்பட்ட அப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

साचून राहिलेले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zaptedilmiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

represso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stłumiony
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

незадоволений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Pent-up
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pent - up
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opgekropte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uppdämt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oppdemmet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pent-up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PENT-UP»

The term «pent-up» is regularly used and occupies the 64.304 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PENT-UP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pent-up

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5 QUOTES WITH «PENT-UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pent-up.
1
Julianna Baggott
Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
2
Ian Botham
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
3
Allan Carr
I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.
4
Ice Cube
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
5
Gregory Stock
There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENT-UP»

Discover the use of pent-up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pent-up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pent-up Profits: A Development Strategy That Actually Works
If you want to link human performance projects to measurable business objectives, this book is a must-read.
Michael Austin, 2010
2
Pent-Up Feelings
Love affection, nature and creation has a place also in this book that will touch the hearts of the readers.
Asham Sedrak, 2011
3
Pent Up Passion: Unleash the Dangers of Romance
Keesha Smalls has two men to choose from ... both are qualified candidates but one can prove to be lethal.
Hope C. Clarke, 2001
4
IBS For Dummies
pent-up. gas. In 2004, a group of Italian doctors pulled together all existing data on IBS in an effort to define it clearly. Here's what they concluded: IBS is a functional, multifactorial condition characterized by abdominal pain and irregular bowel ...
Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, L. Christine Wheeler, MA, 2011
5
Beating the Street
An even more reliable indicator is "units of pent-up demand." I located this telling statistic in a chart that's published in a Chrysler Corporation publication called Corporate Economist — another good candidate for summer reading at the beach.
Peter Lynch, 2012
6
The New Law Reports
There might have been pent-up pus. I see nothing in the bed-head ticket whereby I could ascribe death to the original abscess. " With reference to the pent-up pus, there appears to me to be wanting any material to support this theory; the ...
‎1906
7
Thematic Guide to American Poetry
If "From Pent-Up Aching Rivers" praises the "female form," as Whitman does elsewhere as well, it remains true that Whitman is better known for his homoerotic poetry. "In Paths Untrodden" (1860, rev. 1867), the opening poem of the Calamus  ...
Allan Douglas Burns, 2002
8
Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority
"From Pent-up Aching Rivers," on the other hand, connotes its homoeroticism somewhat differently by infusing it into the poem's more heavily advertised heterosexual program. For example, it is easy to forget that the parenthetical apostrophes ...
Mark Maslan, 2001
9
The Medical Times and Gazette
Some years ago Mr. Toynbee promulgated the doctrine that disease in certain portions of the middle and internal ear produced disease in certain por~~ tions of the brain; or, as he now himself tersely expresses it, that when matter “ is pent up  ...
‎1861
10
Debt, Innovations, and Deflation: The Theories of Veblen, ...
When controls were lifted in 1946, prices surged upward in what has been called an episode of 'pent-up demand' inflation. From June to December 1946, consumer prices rose 15 percent and wholesale prices rose 25 percent (Williams 1994, ...
J. Patrick Raines, Charles G. Leathers

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PENT-UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pent-up is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'Classy' Hearn deserved to be on a big stage
... top players in golf — Jason Day, Bubba Watson and Jim Furyk — but he also had to contend with the pent-up emotions of his countrymen. «Sportsnet.ca, Jul 15»
2
Louisiana town struggles to make sense of movie-theater shooting
Over the weekend, much of the pent-up grief and anger in Lafayette was directed at Westboro. Thousands joined a Facebook page aimed at ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
3
Kolter starts building residential project near Scripps
Anthony Trella, a home construction consultant in Deerfield Beach, said Kolter's Alton development appears promising due to pent-up demand ... «The Real Deal South Florida, Jul 15»
4
'Prison within prison': a transgender inmate's years-long battle for …
In the course of a four-hour interview in Mule Creek state prison in Ione, California, Norsworthy talked about the pent-up desire for transition that ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Auto sales are up across the board, consumers look for cars to fit …
“There's a lot of pent-up demand that has been gradually loosening up,” said Bob Ghent, owner of Ghent Chevrolet Cadillac, 2715 35th Ave. «Greeley Tribune, Jul 15»
6
Renewal on the waterfronts
"It's amazing how pent-up the demand is here," he said. "Everything that's happened in Portland over the last 15 years — all that housing that's ... «The Columbian, Jul 15»
7
Typical SCV House Sells For $521K, Condos At $315K
“The strong activity was expected and will continue for the months ahead, especially given heavy pent-up demand from buyers, many of whom ... «KHTS Radio, Jul 15»
8
Ayurvedic Massage: Things you need to know
Shirodhara is an extremely effective treatment used to calm the nerves, release pent-up emotions, and purify the mind and is particularly well ... «Times of Oman, Jul 15»
9
Bruce Shaw's Derry Scully – An Industry in Recovery
Initiatives like these and pent-up demand will, says Derry, greatly aid the recovery of construction in Ireland. Residential construction is a major ... «Irish Building Magazine, Jul 15»
10
The 'All You Can Carry' sale almost legendary
“There's pent-up demand,” said Rick Sage, 49, a co-owner of the company. “It's been several months since we've had one of these sales. «Tyler Morning Telegraph, Jul 15»

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