What does welling mean?
Welling means present participle and gerund of well.
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/ˈwɛlɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of well.
It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.
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Welling means present participle and gerund of well.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
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