Definitions

If you dam up your feelings, especially anger or sadness, you do not allow yourself to express or show your feelings in a healthy way.

to help someone to express their thoughts and feelings more easily by making that person feel less nervous:

to behave in a way that makes someone you are with feel ashamed or embarrassed:

When bad experiences or people screw you up, they make you worried and unhappy or damage your personality:

to show that you are interested in something:

to find time to do something that you have intended or would like to do:

to improve your personal appearance or the appearance of something:

to arrange for an event or activity to happen:

to arrange for an event or activity to happen: