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1. Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
   "bubbling champagne";
   - bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy
    
2. Marked by high spirits or excitement
   "his fertile bubbling mind";
   - effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly

1. Form, produce, or emit bubbles
   "The soup was bubbling"
    
2. Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
   "bubbling brooks";
   - ripple, babble, guggle, burble, gurgle
    
3. Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
   "bubble to the surface"
    
4. Cause to form bubbles
   "bubble gas through a liquid"
    
5. Expel gas from the stomach
   - burp [informal], belch, eruct [formal]

See also: effervescent, lively, spill over

Type of: alter, arise, breathe, change, come up, emit, go, go up, lift, modify, move up, pass off, rise, sound, uprise

Encyclopedia: Bubbling