What is "pent-up"

Usage examples of "pent-up".

Exactly when Adams found out about the letter, or read its content, are not clear, but once, and apparently only once, he unburdened his pent-up fury, in a letter written earlier that summer to Edmund Jenings.

Is it not his state then that a pent-up fire of lusts of evil consumes the interiors of his mind and lays them waste even to the entrance?

As to whether such occurrences are evidence of disease or not, in any given case, depends upon their frequency, and as to whether they are the result of a weakness of the organs and are followed by more or less depression and debility, or are merely the overflow of a robust system, or the outburst of restrained, pent-up, and ungratified passions.

The aftereffects of the prolonged use of the draught was to unleash all the pent-up fatigue and body-ache on the young men at once.

The beasts were willing to move, throwing their heads and switching their tails with pent-up energy.

Confronted with a form of worship more corrupt than any he had imagined possible, Tarl responded with a pent-up rage of his own, meeting the swinging club of one gnoll with his shield and slamming another with the broad side of the hammer he had recovered from Sokol Keep.

The pent-up rage of the entire mob of Paris seemed to find vent for itself in the howls with which the crowd now tried to drown the rest of the proceedings.

Those pangas, wielded with pent-up hatred, had inflicted hideous mutilation.

The negro's chest heaved up to the encompassing of a great groaning breath, but the shattering mule-power of that pent-up super-auxiliated swipe in the gullet had stunned his thyro-arytenoids as effectively as if a bullet had gone through them.

I have said that the fury of the rushing blast was infernal - cacodaemoniacal - and that its voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities.

I have said that the fury of the rushing blast was infernal - cacodaemoniacal - and that its voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities.

K'vin roared, clenching his fists at his sides because they wanted to grab something to release the pent-up fury in him.

For it was very hot, and the pent-up odor of past cookings was stifling to men used to the open.

The pent-up frustrations, angers, suppressed griefs, the mandatory absences from Orlith that she thought of as betrayals of Impression, the whole accumulation burst the barrier of self-control and she buried her face in the dress, weeping uncontrollably.

But now twenty years of pent-up rage flashed through Joey with atomic heat, instantly purging him of all lingering affection and compassion for P.