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 Translation for 'pent up' from English to Swedish
uppdämd {adj}pent-up
Partial Matches
arki.
pulpettak {n}
pent roof
upp {adv}up
att spänna (åt)to tighten (up)
hoprullad {adj}rolled-up
Käft! [vard.] [Håll käften!]Shut up!
att dricka uppto drink up
att stå uppto stand up
att hamnato end up
att grisa nerto muck up
att knappa in [försprång]to catch up
hydro.
att slamma igen
to silt up
uppäten {adj} {past-p}eaten up
idiom
Upp med hakan!
Cheer up!
Upp med hakan!Chin up!
Upp med hakan!Head up!
beredd {adj}geared up
att blåsa uppto puff up
ansats {u}run-up
att skynda sigto hurry up
kosm.
smink {n}
make-up
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Usage Examples English
  • Fears of a postwar depression did not materialize, thanks in part to the large stock of savings that paid for the pent-up demands for housing, cars, new clothes—and babies.
  • But a north-south sea like the Red Sea has very little tide whereas the Messina Strait carries the pent up effect of two basins.
  • In May 2021, as a result of ongoing business evaluation and pent up demand created by the COVID-19 pandemic, Master Liveaboards announced they would be adding an additional vessel alongside Truk Master to operate at Bikini Atoll from 2022 onwards.
  • Chiang repeatedly expressed his pent-up grievances against Stilwell for his "recklessness, insubordination, contempt, and arrogance" to U.S.
  • This activity and stimulation eventually causes the patient to experience the simulated emotions, thus theoretically releasing emotions pent up inside both the body and the psyche (compare with primal therapy).

  • The institutional outcomes involve the so-called soft budget constraint in which production units under a planned economy form expectations of always being bailed out by central authorities, paternalistic behaviour on the part of the planners who blame the shortages on the fact that consumers demand "wrong things" and in macroeconomic terms repressed inflation resulting from pent up demand.
  • The nation turned to the suburbs, as a pent-up demand for new housing was finally unleashed.
  • Rita Kempley of the Post recognized the "heavy drama," writing that the film "sets new standards when it comes to pent-up passion", but commented positively on the "spectacular scenery".
  • Beginning during the time of Julius Caesar, colosseum entertainment tactically satisfied the Roman mobs' pent-up frustrations with their cheering of the entertainment.
  • The Labour Party victory in 1945 represented pent-up frustrations.

  • He then subjects her to a regimen of psychoactive drugs in the course of therapy sessions to help her heal from her childhood trauma and her pent-up anger at the injustices of the world.
  • They are less likely to bark or be destructive or aggressive if they are able to expend pent-up energy during regular play or exercise.
  • Mann has said that she was "very shy, kind of pent-up" during her youth. She attended college and studied communications, but dropped out before graduating.
  • It is thus "pent-up". Induced demand is demand that has been realised, or "generated", by improvements made to transportation infrastructure.
  • The ceremony served as a catharsis for pent-up high spirits, and "to present symbolically the salvation of the trees by the club ..."

  • Phil and Ed intervene, and Phil holds Jeff at gunpoint, which unleashes his pent-up emotions.
  • The pent-up resentment at Cowen's government resulted in a debacle for Fianna Fáil at the general election.
  • A lot of that pent-up anger and emotion would come out in his playing.
  • Some myths are also securely dated to Proto-Indo-European times, since they feature both linguistic and thematic evidence of an inherited motif: a story portraying a mythical figure associated with thunder and slaying a multi-headed serpent to release torrents of water that had previously been pent up; a creation myth involving two brothers, one of whom sacrifices the other in order to create the world; and probably the belief that the Otherworld was guarded by a watchdog and could only be reached by crossing a river.
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