To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
To join together in a support bubble
To form into a protruding round shape.
To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
To cry, weep.
To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
To cover with bubbles.
To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
Rage bubbled inside him.
To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
A group of people who are in quarantine together.
An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
A Greek.
The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
A laugh.
A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
Said of an aircraft: to make a series of plunges when taking off or landing; or of a watercraft: to successively plunge up and down in the water.
Said of an air-breathing aquatic animal such as a porpoise or penguin: To repeatedly jump out of the water to take a breath and dive back in a continuous motion.
Any small dolphin.
A small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.