well5 (
also well up)
verb [intransitive] literary[
Date: 1300-1400;
Origin: well 'to cause to boil' (11-15 centuries), from Old English wellan]
1. if a liquid wells or wells up, it comes to the surface of something and starts to flow out:
I felt tears well up in my eyes.2. if a feeling wells or wells up in you, you start to feel it strongly:
Anger welled up within him. [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲