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Bubble up   /bˈəbəl əp/   Listen
Bubble up

verb
1.
Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically.  Synonym: intumesce.  "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"






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"Bubble up" Quotes from Famous Books



... the thirst of the spirit in the underground world of Hades, where an old myth had declared that "dust only was its food," and it was at the same time an emblem of those "waters of life" which were believed to bubble up beneath the throne of the goddess of ...
— Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs • Rev. A. H. Sayce

... evening I made grandmamma a cup of tea. It is not every one who knows how to make tea. The water must boil and bubble up. It isn't fully boiling when the steam begins to rise from the spout, but if you will wait five minutes after that it will be just right for use. Pour a very little into the teapot, rinse it, and pour the water out, and then put in your tea. ...
— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various



Words linked to "Bubble up" :   surface, come up, rise, intumesce, rise up



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