Usually means: Accumulated, unreleased tension or emotions.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word pent up:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. pent up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pent-up: Merriam-Webster
  3. pent-up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pent-up: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pent-up, pent-up: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pent-up: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pent-Up, Pent-up, pent-up: Wordnik
  8. pent-up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pent-up, pent up: Wiktionary
  10. pent-up: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pent-up: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pent-up: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pent-up, pent up: Dictionary.com
  14. pent-up: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. pent-up: Rhymezone
  16. pent-up: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pent-up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Pent Up: The Word Detective
  19. pent-up, pent up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. pent-up: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pent-up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Pent up)

▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of pent-up [Not expressed.]

Similar:
inhibited, repressed, unutilised, unlexicalised, pressurised, unhypothesised, intered, unemphasised, underpressurised, unsolubilised, more...

Phrases:
pent up anger, feeling of pent up, pent up energy, pent up emotions, pent up anger bursts out, more...

Adjectives:
untheorised, unnamable, unlicenced, unhonoured, unchequered, undateable, unloveable, unmodernised, unpublicised, unbeveled, nonpolarisable

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Similar:
inhibited, repressed, unutilised, unlexicalised, pressurised, unhypothesised, intered, unemphasised, underpressurised, unsolubilised, more...

Phrases:
pent up anger, feeling of pent up, pent up energy, pent up emotions, pent up anger bursts out, more...

Adjectives:
untheorised, unnamable, unlicenced, unhonoured, unchequered, undateable, unloveable, unmodernised, unpublicised, unbeveled, nonpolarisable



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