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BUBBLING

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by high spirits or excitementplay

Example:

a row of sparkly cheerleaders

Synonyms:

bubbling; effervescent; frothy; scintillating; sparkly

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

lively (full of life and energy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentationplay

Example:

foamy (or frothy) beer

Synonyms:

bubbling; bubbly; effervescing; foaming; foamy; frothy; spumy

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

effervescent ((of a liquid) giving off bubbles)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb bubble

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 Context examples: 

As she spoke, she sprang herself into the shallow stream and ran swiftly up the centre of it, with the brown water bubbling over her feet and her hand out-stretched toward the clinging branches of bramble or sapling.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What attracted Challenger, on the other hand, was a bubbling, gurgling mud geyser, where some strange gas formed great bursting bubbles upon the surface.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The pitch was bubbling in the seams; the nasty stench of the place turned me sick; if ever a man smelt fever and dysentery, it was in that abominable anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Into this opening several bamboo canes had been inserted and the other ends of these canes were in contact with conical clay funnels which collected the gas bubbling up through the mud of the geyser.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The current had turned at right angles, sweeping round along with it the tall schooner and the little dancing coracle; ever quickening, ever bubbling higher, ever muttering louder, it went spinning through the narrows for the open sea.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)




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