to bubble up
19
3.7
- phrasal verb
- /ˈbʌbəl ʌp/
:
burbujear (literal)
- There's something powerful bubbling up inside me, Father.
And now after two passes, I've effectively bubbled up the next biggest number.
- And now after two passes, I've effectively bubbled up the next biggest number.
- It's very itchy, and I feel like at the first wash, it will bubble up.
- But there's a certain state of being that allows for the fun to just bubble up.
- All the times that there have been major social revolutions, they bubbled up from the bottom.
- And as you continue to breathe in and out, slowly become aware of the thoughts that bubble up in your mind.
- We were one of the first units on scene and essentially civil unrest was beginning to bubble up.
- Instead of doing that, I started throwing the cheese down first, like onto the gomal or the pan or whatever and letting it bubble up and kind of fry a little bit.
- I am seeing it bubbling up many, many different places.
Examples
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All the times that there have been major social revolutions, they bubbled up from the bottom.
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Many innovative ideas bubble up in laboratories and even attract early-stage venture capital funding.
Academic text (2011) -
What pieces of advice bubble up that you would have for for young men and young women?
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And so that old story starts to bubble up again because it's familiar.
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I think that, you know, those market solutions to those types of things tend to, you know, bubble up the good ideas.
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I am seeing it bubbling up many, many different places.
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And as you continue to breathe in and out, slowly become aware of the thoughts that bubble up in your mind.
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It's like everything that was ever repressed in this town is suddenly bubbling up through the ground.
Fiction book (2000) -
Spending was easy because there was no end to the useful and imaginative initiatives bubbling up in the department.
Fiction book (2002) -
As the water heated, small bubbles began to bubble up from the bottom of the pot.
Synonyms
571
2.2
To move from below to a higher place, like a diver rising to the surface
33
3.9
Move up through a liquid to the surface
32
1.0
To make small round pockets of air appear in a liquid
8
2.7
Move up into the air like smoke or mist
Show so much excitement that you cannot hide it
Antonyms
How Noticeable
123
4.2
26
3.2
249
3.5
143
3.9
19
3.7
23
5.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The primary sense (liquid or gas forming bubbles and moving upward) is directly compositional from 'bubble' (to form/release bubbles) + 'up' (toward a higher place). The figurative use (feelings or ideas ‘bubbling up’) is an image-based, cross-linguistically common extension of the physical sense, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The verb bubble up comes from the simple picture of small bubbles moving up through water or steam and reaching the surface. So when a feeling or idea bubble up, it suddenly rises from inside and 'becomes noticed'.