well up
verb- To gradually or steadily flow upwards or outwards so as to begin to fill or overflow something. · Oil was welling up out of the borehole.· As soon as I heard news of his death, tears started to well up in my eyes.
- To accumulate within one, to the point of overwhelming one. · Emotion welled up inside me.
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“We’re well up with the times in Sussex.
I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he is a first-class chemist; but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medical classes.
Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally.
“I’d rather not pass at all than not come out pretty well up on the list,” flashed Anne, by which she meant--and Diana knew she meant--that success would be incomplete and bitter if she did not come out ahead of Gilbert Blythe.
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