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WELL UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)

Example:

Smoke swelled from it

Synonyms:

swell; well up

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "well up" is one way to...):

arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise (come into existence; take on form or shape)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

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