Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 憋

to choke
to stifle
to restrain
to hold back
to hold in (urine)
to hold (one's breath)

to stifle a guffaw

to feel oppressed
to be depressed
to feel dejected

to hold one's breath
to feel suffocated (for lack of air)
choked with bottled-up resentment

to hold in one's pee; to hold back from urinating

sullen

to be unable to repress sth
to be unable to contain oneself

huórénràngniàobiēsǐ

活人让尿憋死

[活人讓尿憋死]

lit. such a fool as to die from holding in one's pee (idiom)
fig. unable to solve a problem due to the inflexibility of one's thinking