verb
come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) (Freq. 3)
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Strong emotions welled up
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Smoke swelled from it
• Syn: ↑swell
• Hypernyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
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Something is ——ing PP
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well up variant UK US
Main entry: well
Useful english dictionary. 2012.