All welling synonyms
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W w verb welling
- foam β a collection of minute bubbles formed on the surface of a liquid by agitation, fermentation, etc.: foam on a glass of beer.
- boil β When a hot liquid boils or when you boil it, bubbles appear in it and it starts to change into steam or vapour.
- burble β If something burbles, it makes a low continuous bubbling sound.
- churn β A churn is a container which is used for making butter.
- erupt β (of a volcano) become active and eject lava, ash, and gases.
- fester β to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
- gurgle β to flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current: The water gurgled from the bottle.
- gush β to flow out or issue suddenly, copiously, or forcibly, as a fluid from confinement: Water gushed from the broken pipe.
- percolate β to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter.
- seep β to pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance: Water seeps through cracks in the wall.
- seethe β to surge or foam as if boiling.
- simmer β to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- smolder β to burn without flame; undergo slow or suppressed combustion.
- sparkle β to issue in or as if in little sparks, as fire or light: The candlelight sparkled in the crystal.
- stir β to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- trickle β to flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream: Tears trickled down her cheeks.
- eddy β a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
- effervesce β to give off bubbles of gas, as fermenting liquors.
- fizz β to make a hissing or sputtering sound; effervesce.
- issue β the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- moil β to work hard; drudge.
- murmur β a low, continuous sound, as of a brook, the wind, or trees, or of low, indistinct voices.
- ripple β (of a liquid surface) to form small waves or undulations, as water agitated by a breeze.
- spume β to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed by forth).
- swash β to splash, as things in water, or as water does: Waves were swashing against the piers.
- well β in a good or satisfactory manner: Business is going well.
- diminish β to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
- flow β to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- leak β an unintended hole, crack, or the like, through which liquid, gas, light, etc., enters or escapes: a leak in the roof.
- ooze β (of moisture, liquid, etc.) to flow, percolate, or exude slowly, as through holes or small openings.
- reduce β to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- abate β If something bad or undesirable abates, it becomes much less strong or severe.
- decline β If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
- decrease β When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
- dwindle β to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away.
- effuse β to pour out or forth; shed; disseminate: The town effuses warmth and hospitality.
- exude β Discharge (moisture or a smell) slowly and steadily.
- osmose β to undergo osmosis.
- run off β to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- taper off β to become smaller or thinner toward one end.
- cascade β If you refer to a cascade of something, you mean that there is a large amount of it.
- flush β a hand or set of cards all of one suit. Compare royal flush, straight flush.
- pour β to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
- spew β to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
- spout β to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
- burst β If something bursts or if you burst it, it suddenly breaks open or splits open and the air or other substance inside it comes out.
- emanate β (of something abstract but perceptible) Issue or spread out from (a source).
- emerge β Move out of or away from something and come into view.
- flood β a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
- jet β a compact black coal, susceptible of a high polish, used for making beads, jewelry, buttons, etc.