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Verb: well up
  1. Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
    "Strong emotions welled up";
    - swell

Derived forms: welled up, welling up, wells up

Type of: arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise

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well disposed
well done
well I never
well now
well out
well over
well point
well then
well thought out
well timed
well up
well water
well well
well-adjusted
well-advised
well-appointed
well-balanced
well-behaved
wellbeing
well-being
wellborn