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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of well.

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Examples

  • The word welled up as a growl, low and rumbling from a squat, muscular man.

    The Universe — or Nothing Meyer Moldeven

  • Like, with every fiber of my being, and my eyes kind of welled up because it was overwhelming.

    Archive 2007-09-01 N A 2007

  • Like, with every fiber of my being, and my eyes kind of welled up because it was overwhelming.

    brothercyst N A 2007

  • Sitting in the Sinai Memorial Chapel, listening to the haunting kaddish, I considered: What happens to all that energy of grief Larry’s phrase welled from memory when people have no way to give it voice?

    Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

  • Sitting in the Sinai Memorial Chapel, listening to the haunting kaddish, I considered: What happens to all that energy of grief Larry’s phrase welled from memory when people have no way to give it voice?

    Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

  • Sitting in the Sinai Memorial Chapel, listening to the haunting kaddish, I considered: What happens to all that energy of grief Larry’s phrase welled from memory when people have no way to give it voice?

    Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

  • Sitting in the Sinai Memorial Chapel, listening to the haunting kaddish, I considered: What happens to all that energy of grief Larry’s phrase welled from memory when people have no way to give it voice?

    Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

  • "All these emotions kind of welled out of me," he said.

    Home | The New York Observer 2009

  • "All these emotions kind of welled out of me," he said.

    Home | The New York Observer 2009

  • "All these emotions kind of welled out of me," he said.

    The New York Observer - 2009

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