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Adjective: bubbling  bú-b(u-)ling
  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
Verb: bubble  bú-b(u)l
  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

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