bubble
/ˈbʌbəl/ verb C2- To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling). · The laminate is bubbling.
- To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface. · Rage bubbled inside him.
- To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- To form into a protruding round shape.
- To cover with bubbles.
He/she/it bubbles · Past bubbled · Past participle bubbled · -ing form bubbling
Verb forms
- Base form
- bubble
- He/she/it
- bubbles
- Past
- bubbled
- Past participle
- bubbled
- -ing form
- bubbling
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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We have agreed to call the spring down by the log bridge the Dryad’s Bubble.
THE next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen window, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad’s Bubble beckoning mysteriously.
The maples in Lover’s Lane were red budded and little curly ferns pushed up around the Dryad’s Bubble.
She and Diana fairly lived outdoors, reveling in all the delights that Lover’s Lane and the Dryad’s Bubble and Willowmere and Victoria Island afforded.
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