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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



... midst of which circles a merciless sun, from the scorching rays of which there is no escape, even under an awning; for the stoutest canvas seems incapable of completely intercepting the fiery darts that cause the pitch to bubble up out of the deck seams, and heat metal and dark-painted wood to a temperature high enough to blister the hand unwarily laid upon either. Even though an awning be spread, and shelter sought thereunder, those burning rays are not to be evaded; for they flash up from the mirror-like ...
— Overdue - The Story of a Missing Ship • Harry Collingwood



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



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