bubble up

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Verb

bubble up - move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"

intumesce

rise up, surface, come up, rise - come to the surface

Translations

w>bubble up

vi (liquid) → aufsprudeln; (gas) → in Blasen/Bläschen hochsteigen; (excitement, emotions) → aufsteigen, hochkommen

References in periodicals archive ?

A: Actually, natural oil seeps on the ocean floor constantly bubble up petroleum.

Oil spill! A marine calamity raises the burning question: how to prevent a repeat disaster? (Oil/Oceans)

Unlikely characters bubble up into the plot, such as Oscar Wilde's father, who brings in the Irish version of the box-on-stilts, the Crannog.