adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pent-up emotions (= emotions that someone feels but does not express )
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Crying can release pent-up emotions.
suppressed/pent-up anger (= that you have tried not to show )
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Her voice shook with suppressed anger.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
demand
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In theory, there should be lots of pent-up demand for commercial radio in Britain.
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Seventy years of empty store shelves have created great pent-up demand for consumer goods, including electronics.
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There is a huge pent-up demand for new cars, he said.
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Background: The New York area was hit hard by the recession, but pent-up demand is pushing up prices.
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But I believe that there is a pent-up demand which I hope will begin to show in June.
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But once that pent-up demand had been satisfied, sales fell back dramatically in 1958.
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So January benefits partly from pent-up demand .
emotion
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A lot of pent-up emotion there, he thought.
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This team has borne a lot of pent-up emotions .
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A tantrum is a sudden release of pent-up emotion , a mixture of rage, frustration and anger.
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As the tense muscles begin to relax, sometimes pent-up emotions are also freed.
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Ritual has been regarded by several anthropologists as a social event in which pent-up emotions can find some form of release.
energy
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The pills left a bitter taste, a raging thirst and pent-up energy for which there was no outlet.
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The pent-up energy overflows and a mad dash is on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The collapse of the Berlin Wall released a pent-up demand for consumer goods
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Years of pent-up anger and frustration came out as she cried.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lot of pent-up emotion there, he thought.
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All that pent-up rage, kicking the bicycle rack ... but proper competitors were supposed to be aggressive.
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And they are surprised to learn that boys who lack assertiveness often express their pent-up anger by being ineffectual.
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Seventy years of empty store shelves have created great pent-up demand for consumer goods, including electronics.
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Suddenly, as Sophie pulled into the drive of Broom House, her pent-up feelings collapsed into cold black depression.
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This team has borne a lot of pent-up emotions.
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We did not exactly quarrel, but we started unloading pent-up resentments and frustrations.