Meaning

15 senses
  1. (intransitive)To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).

    The laminate is bubbling.

    blubbern

    rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles

  2. (figuratively, intransitive)To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.

    Rage bubbled inside him.

  3. (figuratively, intransitive)To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.

  4. (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive)To cry, weep.

  5. (transitive)To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.

  6. (transitive)To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.

  7. (transitive)To express in a bubbly or lively manner.

  8. (transitive)To form into a protruding round shape.

  9. (transitive)To cover with bubbles.

    form, produce, or emit bubbles

  10. (transitive)To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).

  11. To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.

  12. (intransitive)To join together in a support bubble

Examples

140 sentences
  1. Don't burst my bubble.

    Не руйнуй мою мрію. — deniko

    ruНе разрушай мою мечту. — sharptoothed

    deZerstöre nicht meinen Traum! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom is chewing bubble gum.

    Том жує жувальну гумку. — deniko

    ruТом жуёт жвачку. — odexed

    deTom kaut einen Kaugummi. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Have you ever taken a bubble bath?

  4. How often do you take a bubble bath?

  5. Tom's problem is that he lives in his own bubble.

    ruПроблема Тома в том, что он живёт в своём собственном мирке. — marafon

    deToms Problem ist, dass er in seiner eigenen kleinen Welt lebt. — Zaghawa

Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to rise up in bubbles:

Origin

Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch

Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe (“bubble”) > Dutch bubbel (“bubble”), Low German bubbel (“bubble”), Danish boble (“bubble”), Swedish bubbla (“bubble”). The word was first used in its economic sense in association with the collapse of the South Sea Company in 1720, based on the metaphor of an inflated soap bubble bursting.

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Forms

bubbles, bubbling, bubbled, bubbled
Base formbubble · to bubble
3rd person singularbubbles
Present participlebubbling
Past simplebubbled
Past participlebubbled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybubble
he, she, itbubbles

Past simpleLesson

all personsbubbled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bubbled
he, she, ithas bubbled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bubble

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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