bottle up vs strangle

bottle up and strangle both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bottle up	No	No	Yes	No
strangle	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, strangle is a hyponym of bottle up; that is, strangle is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bottle up:

bottle up: consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
strangle: suppress in order to conceal or hide

Other hyponyms of bottle up include dampen, stifle, muffle, repress, smother, stifle, choke.

bottle up (verb)	strangle (verb)
consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior	constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
	struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
	prevent the progress or free movement of
	die from strangulation
	kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air
	suppress in order to conceal or hide