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Verb: bubble up
  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";
    - intumesce

Derived forms: bubbles up, bubbling up, bubbled up

Type of: come up, rise, rise up, surface

Encyclopedia: Bubble up