bubble up

1. 1.

   move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically

   “Gases bubbled up from the earth”

   “Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America”

   Synonymsintumesce

   Broadersurface

Questions about bubble up

What does bubble up mean?

bubble up means "move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically".

What is another word for bubble up?

Close synonyms include intumesce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bubble up a common word?

bubble up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.