verb
- Form, produce, or emit bubbles.
- usage: "The soup was bubbling"
- synonyms: bubble
- Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise.
- usage: "babbling brooks"
- Rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles.
- usage: "bubble to the surface"
- synonyms: bubble
- Cause to form bubbles.
- usage: "bubble gas through a liquid"
- synonyms: bubble
- Expel gas from the stomach.
- usage: "In China it is polite to burp at the table"
adjective
- Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation.
- usage: "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer"
- Marked by high spirits or excitement.
- usage: "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders"
- synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly
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