welled
past simple and past participle ofwell
well
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
uk/wel/us/wel/(ofliquid) toappearon thesurfaceof something or comeslowlyout fromsomewhere:
Dirtywaterwelled(up) out ofthedamagedpipe.
As shereadthelettertearswelledupin hereyes.
figurativeConflictingemotionswelledupin hisheart.
Synonym
swell
Movement of liquids
- backsplash
- be dripping withsomethingidiom
- bleed
- decant
- discharge
- drainage
- drip
- eddy
- leak
- runsomeone/somethingover
- runnel
- seep
- seepage
- slosh
- spit
- topsomethingup
- trickle
- tub
- washsomethingaway
- waterborne
Examplesofwelled
welled
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The text relates that the reply so moved the officer that his eyeswelledwith tears.
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Most strikingly, that concernwelledup during the 1970s in connection with whooping cough vaccine.
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However, underneath there is a deep fount of patriotism which haswelledup and which longs to be satisfied.
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I am speaking now of the volume of criticism and the sincere public feeling that haswelledup.
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The crisis which haswelledup has made us all think hard, and it has taught us a good many things.
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A feeling of injusticewelledup and it was regarded as a great failure.
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They were spasmodic, they were spontaneous, theywelledup from beneath.
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The crisis haswelledup in the past 12 months.
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At the time it was an issue thatwelledup, comparatively speaking, to the most enormous political proportions.
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When he was making his statement the truthwelledout of him, instead of being carefully safeguarded so that only as little as possible of it should escape.
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Lavawelledup from the rift and solidified into sheets of strata hundreds of feet thick.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The rock outcrop, composed mostly of rhyodacite, is a volcanic plug formed when magmawelledup underneath a layer of softer rock and solidified.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.I getwelledup praying along with several of the songs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.From about 1775welledand dry smacks were used, mostly as cod boats, and rigged as gaff cutters.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The lavawelledup from the rift and solidified into sheets of strata hundreds of feet thick.
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