bottled

1. 1
   adjective

   Packaged in a bottle for sale, storage, or distribution.

   Bottled spring water fills the shelves of every grocery store.

   Many cafes now charge extra for bottled drinks.

   Oppositedraft

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of bottle.

   The winery bottled this vintage three years ago.

   Volunteers bottled the honey and labeled each jar.

   Note

   One spelling covers both jobs: the winery bottled the wine, and the wine was bottled or has been bottled. The verb reaches well past packaging. In British slang, someone who bottled a leap lost their nerve at the last moment, a side that bottled its lead threw it away, and a performer who got bottled was pelted with bottles.

3. 3
   adjective

   Held back and kept from being expressed, as emotions one refuses to release.

   Like pressure building behind a sealed valve until it forces its way out.

   Years of bottled resentment finally surfaced during the argument.

   He carried a bottled grief that he never spoke about.

   Similarpent-up, repressed, stifled

   Oppositeexpressed

   Note

   Here the image is of feelings sealed away like liquid in a bottle, the figurative reach the verb already allows. The meaning is the same as bottled up, and before a noun the shorter form reads naturally: bottled resentment, bottled grief. The picture grows from the packaged sense: what is bottled is kept, and what is kept is not let out.

4. 4
   adjectiveslang

   Drunk; heavily intoxicated from drinking alcohol.

   He was thoroughly bottled before last call.

   Half the guests were bottled and singing off-key by ten o'clock.

   Similardrunk, wasted, smashed, hammered, plastered

   Oppositesober

   Note

   A slang word for drunkenness that belongs in casual talk among friends and is out of place in formal writing. It pairs naturally with get, the way get drunk does: George Harsh's Lonesome Road (1971) has "the last time we got bottled." Keep it apart from the past form of the verb, where someone who was bottled was struck with a bottle rather than drunk.

5. 5
   adjective

   Having the shape of a bottle, or swelling outward the way the body of a bottle does.

   Similarbulbous

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