The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bubble \Bub"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bubbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Bubbling.] [Cf. D. bobbelen, Dan. boble. See Bubble, n.]
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To rise in bubbles, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles.
The milk that bubbled in the pail.
--Tennyson. To run with a gurgling noise, as if forming bubbles; as, a bubbling stream.
--Pope.-
To sing with a gurgling or warbling sound.
At mine ear Bubbled the nightingale and heeded not.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: bubble)
Usage examples of "bubbled".
She bubbled over with precise and cheerful comment, she appeared to talk even more than was absolutely necessary and it was only upon her departure that her entertainers noticed that she had said nothing at all.
As soon as everybody was bubbled up, Alexei stepped over to one of the sidewalls of the cargo pod.
And they toiled on till they reached the spot where the cold water bubbled out from a pebbly hollow under an old tree.
She bubbled over with precise and cheerful comment, she appeared to talk even more than was absolutely necessary and it was only upon her departure that her entertainers noticed that she had said nothing at all.
Joy shone in her posture and in the ecstatic laughter that bubbled from her throat, the kind of joy that only someone who has been sick a long time, or lost, or in despair, could feel when relief and renewal finally arrive.
The stones of the dome itself were cracked, blackened and pitted where they had bubbled and melted under attack by awesome heat weapons.
These domes were the same light ochre as the desert and they gave the oasis the look of a piece of land that had melted, bubbled and then solidified.
In one corner of the large, low ceilinged room a small, heated whirlpool and fountain bubbled merrily to itself.
A door where none had been took us to a cavernous place of blues and greens, where pools bubbled and small waves ebbed in rock, lapped sand fine as powdered salt.
I blew it out, let my head turn to the side, breathed stinky air, bubbled out stale beneath the water, turned again, breathed, while light coiled in rippled streaks, and I was borne up, my limbs drawing me forward, gliding, more bird in sky than fish in creek, with smooth coordination, a grace.
Agony bubbled in his throat, and he curled up around his pain, clutching himself.
One man still thrashed and moaned, but his wound was deep, having been cut through shoulder and lung, and blood bubbled up on his lips.
Froth bubbled at her mouth as she shrieked in battle frenzy and charged for this new line.
Lying there in tall grass, swept by breeze and taking in heady lungfuls of air, Ivar had a revelation: Everything Baldwin had done, from running away to the monastery to running away from Margrave Judith, all of which had seemed so purposeful and clever and forcefully planned, had actually bubbled up out of a similar thoughtless impulse.
A thick layer of melted Cheddar cheese bubbled over the dark, pungent enchilada sauce that in turn smothered the rolled and stuffed tortillas.