bubbling up

Percolating to top

Bubbling up describes something rising to the surface, like gas escaping through liquid.

The image extends to emotions, ideas, or issues that emerge gradually from below: Resentment had been bubbling up for years.

In computing, bubbling up refers to events or errors propagating upward through a system hierarchy.

New talent keeps bubbling up from the minor leagues.

Related

rise · coming up · upwelling · seething · fizzing · emergence · surging · rising · effervescence · sparkling water · champagne · elation · excitement · gut feeling · simmering · innovation · fresh talent · boiling

Categories
Opposites
vertical movement direction

bubbling upsinking

Falling through water

settling · descending · falling · dropping · plummeting

emergence vs. submergence

bubbling updisappearing

Ceasing to be visible

submerging · receding · fading away · dying down · withdrawing

intensity of agitation

bubbling upstagnating

Ceasing to develop

settling · calming · stilling · dying down · settling down

Family

bubble, bubbling, bubbles, bubbled, bubbly

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G