His pent-up grudge to the cult exploded into the gunshot death of the former prime minister.
Source: tatoeba (11307478)
Pent-up
//pɛnt ʌp//
Synonyms for "pent-up" (26 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (13)
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20 translations across 7 languages.
Dutch
3 entries- onderdrukt adj (not expressed)
- onderdrukt adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
- onuitgesproken adj (not expressed)
Esperanto
1 entries- subpremita adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
French
1 entries- refoulé adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
Polish
4 entries- niewypowiedziany adj (not expressed)
- powstrzymywany adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
- stłumiony adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
- tłumiony adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
Russian
2 entries- подавленный adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
- сдерживаемый adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- potisnut adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
- prigušen adj (not expressed)
- zatomljen adj (not expressed)
- zatomljen adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
Spanish
4 entries- acrecido adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
- acumulado adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
- contenido adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
- reprimido adj (repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
He has a lot of pent-up anger.
Source: tatoeba (13001469)
I remember, particularly, how, in his speech here, he referred to what his family had suffered in Kansas, without ever giving the least vent to his pent-up fire.
Source: wiktionary
He punched his pillow and screamed at the top of his lungs about all the pent-up frustrations from the day.
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.