• v.
    ⦿come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
    lexical concept
  • Smoke swelled from it
  • Strong emotions welled up

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
lexinfo:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:swell
  2. enl:well up
wn:interlingual indexili:i34805

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • well up
  • swellwell up