bottle up

verb5

1. •
   To put into bottles.
2. •
   To keep suppressed and hidden.

   • Emotions are often bottled up rather than dealt with, which can lead to stress in later life.
3. •
   To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
4. •
   (informal) To comprehensively defeat.

   • Leosthenes defeated Antipater in battle—the first defeat of a Macedonian army for thirty years—and bottled him up in the town of Lamia. — 2011
5. •
   (slang) To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action.