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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, wells up, welling up

Type of: arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise [archaic, literary]