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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: welling up, wells up, welled up

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

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