Well-up Definition

verb

To accumulate.

As soon as I heard news of his death, tears started to well up in my eyes, and soon I was weeping helplessly.
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  • She started to well up.

  • Her face flamed hotter and tears threatened to well up in her eyes.

  • Besides these came the composition of his Chinese books, the teaching of his people and the maintenance of the record of the mission history which had been enjoined upon him by the general of the order, and which he kept well up to date.

  • Thanks, things going well up there?

  • There are higher schools in the principal towns, and the standard of primary education is well up to the average of Spain.

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Words Starting With W and Ending With P

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