bubble over

bubble over
verb
overflow with a certain feeling (Freq. 1)
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The children bubbled over with joy

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My boss was bubbling over with anger

• Syn: ↑overflow, ↑spill over
• Hypernyms: ↑seethe, ↑boil
• Verb Frames:
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intransitive verb
: to be so filled with something (as with emotion, an idea, or information) as to be unable to restrain it from escaping as if in bubbles

she came back bubbling over with news

especially : to give vent to emotion in a series of impulses

he frisked around her bubbling over with joy — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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bubble over
To show uncontrolled anger, mirth, etc
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Main Entry: ↑bubble

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ˌbubble ˈover [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they bubble over he/she/it bubbles over present participle bubbling over past tense bubbled over past participle bubbled over] phrasal verb
if a happy or excited feeling bubbles over, you feel it very strongly and usually show that you are feeling it

His optimism bubbled over.

Thesaurus: to feel an emotionsynonym
Main entry: bubble

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