Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To gradually or steadily flow upwards or outwards so as to begin to fill or overflow something.

    Oil was welling up out of the borehole.

    As soon as I heard news of his death, tears started to well up in my eyes.

    hervorquellen

  2. (broadly, figuratively)To accumulate within one, to the point of overwhelming one.

    Emotion welled up inside me.

    нахлы́нутьnaxlýnutʹ, напо́лнитьnapólnitʹ

More definitions
  • come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)

Examples

52 sentences

  1. Well, make up your mind.

    Ну, гаразд, визначайся. — miketheknight

    ruЛадно, решайся. — marafon

    deNun, entscheide dich! — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. You may as well give up.

    ruМожешь хоть сдаться. — Ooneykcall

    deDu kannst genauso gut aufgeben. — Wolf

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  3. I might as well give up.

    deIch könnte genauso gut aufgeben. — brauchinet

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  4. You might as well give up.

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  5. We might as well pack up.

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
(of an emotion) to accumulate, to the point of overwhelming:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to flow upwards or outwards:

Forms

wells up, welling up, welled up, welled up
Base formwell up · to well up
3rd person singularwells up
Present participlewelling up
Past simplewelled up
Past participlewelled up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theywell up
he, she, itwells up

Past simpleLesson

all personswelled up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave welled up
he, she, ithas welled up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill well up

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things):swell

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wellA1wellnesswellywelsh

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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