Welling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈwɛlɪŋ/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Welling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of well.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of well.
More Meanings
- The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- wellings
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