pent-upadj.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 ii. iv. 25 Go get thee gone, and hide thee from their sights, And in thy pent vp studie rue my shame.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 187 The pent up bed-house, the clothes of infection unventilated and unwashed.

1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xii. 150 Their nerves are quickened by the..confinement in these pent-up houses.

1872 H. W. Longfellow Finale in Three Bks. Song i. 109 All left at once the pent-up room, And rushed into the open air.

1908 E. C. Stedman Poems 62 Of cruel retreats through pent-up streets by murderous volleys swept, How well the Stone, the Iron, Brigades their bloody outposts kept.

1637 W. Alexander Doomes-day (new ed.) vi. xci. 137 in Recreations with Muses Whil'st boyling rage (pent up) last high did swell.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xii. 225 Our Roof is neat, and sweet our Fare, Banisht are noysom Vapours to the pent-up Air.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. i. ii. 15 A stagnating, confined, pent-up Air.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 196 The smoke of lamps, The pent-up breath of an unsav'ry throng.

1812 Edinb. Rev. Nov. 332 The pent-up vapours disploded with the force of an earthquake.

1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxvii. 322 A relief to perplexed, pent-up emotion.

1933 A. White Frost in May ix. 270 The sound of the last lines was too much for Nanda's pent-up feelings... She burst into tears.

1978 S. King Stand lxii. 739 When he reached the top, Stu released his pent-up breath in a long, harsh sigh.

2002 C. Knox tr. E. van Heerden Long Silence of Mario Salviati i. x. 44 The idleness of these first few days gave many things a chance to surface in Ingi's heart: quiet pent-up feelings that had accumulated all year.