0 Pent-up feelings are not allowed to be expressed or released:
Screaming at the top of your voice is a good way of venting pent-up frustration.
1 (of feelings) not expressed or released:
His pent-up anger and frustration burst forth.
2 used to describe strong demand for a product that has not had the opportunity of being expressed as sales, for example because consumers have had too little money:
Sales of heavy lorries increased, reflecting the improvement in the economy and pent-up demand from delayed purchases.
This pent-up force of different charges is expressed in many ways and may explode, slip out consciously, or be withheld and maintained inside.
When something is an emotional trigger and creates an imbalance, the pent-up charges demand attention and want to be released by crying.
A decline of ethnic tensions would be expected because, after an initial period in which pent-up tensions are vented, a healthy set of nonconflictual coping mechanisms should develop.
This would be a result of pent-up, suppressed or otherwise hidden ethnic tensions that come to the surface, or are reported more accurately in a situation of greater civil liberties.
Gowing interprets this extraordinary degree of female litigiousness as evidence of a pent-up desire on the part of women to bring their moral concerns before the public.
Half the 3 million unemployed are under 25, many of them desolate and with pent-up emotions.
Once freeze and severe restraint were over, there was an acute problem in dealing with the pent-up flood of claims and price increases.
Perhaps this is pent-up frustration bursting out after the greyness of a week's work which never varies in its rather soulless pattern.
