Antonyms for bubbling


Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : buhb-uhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʌb əl


Definition of bubbling

Origin :
  • early 14c., perhaps from Middle Dutch bobbel (n.) and/or Middle Low German bubbeln (v.), all probably of echoic origin. Bubble bath first recorded 1949. Of financial schemes originally in South Sea Bubble (1590s), on notion of "fragile and insubstantial."
  • adj fizzy
  • noun effervescence
Example sentences :
  • It was red from heat, and the water was bubbling away in its boiler.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • Phoebe's indignation was cumulative always, and was now bubbling into wrath.
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
  • He was bubbling over with excitement and the sense of his own huge importance.
  • Extract from : « The Slave Of The Lamp » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • Gubblum's porridge was bubbling, and the thivel worked vigorously.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
  • Then, at last, when they were alone, he loosed the question that was bubbling on his lips.
  • Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
  • The cell becomes different from the rest in gravity, voltage and bubbling.
  • Extract from : « The Automobile Storage Battery » by O. A. Witte
  • He sipped at his bubbling tumbler and smacked his thin lips.
  • Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
  • When he succeeded, he felt within him the bubbling of a sweet contentment.
  • Extract from : « The Trimming of Goosie » by James Hopper
  • There, near a bubbling spring, Puss had hidden since daybreak.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Night » by Alfred W. Rees
  • There was a bubbling fountain of good-humor about him that seemed inexhaustible.
  • Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever

Synonyms for bubbling

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