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Vinony

welling

noun

  1. bubbling, surging, or flowing of water
  2. gather, pool up (non-phrasal version of 'well_up'); upward motion of water, or as if of water, perhaps from a spring
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈwɛlɪŋ/

name

  1. A surname.
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noun

  1. The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.

    “It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.”

    “Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.”

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of well