WELL UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well up mean? 

• WELL UP (verb)
  The verb WELL UP has 1 sense:

1. come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)

  Familiarity information: WELL UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

swell; well up

Context example:

Smoke swelled from it

Hypernyms (to "well up" is one way to...):

arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise (come into existence; take on form or shape)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

He is well up in his work, though his Greek is his weak subject.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is well up to the fourth mark.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Northwesterly winds allowed this warmer water to well up from the deep ocean onto the continental shelf in front of Marguerite Bay.

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

“You must be well up in mathematics,” I said. “Where did you go to school?”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then Cornwallis is, doubtless, keeping well up to Brest, though, for my own part, I had rather tempt them out into the open sea.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first day they covered thirty-five miles to the Big Salmon; the next day thirty-five more to the Little Salmon; the third day forty miles, which brought them well up toward the Five Fingers.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Now, if you are well up in your London, you will know that the office of the company is in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where you found me to-night.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By my hilt! I think that it is well up to the fifth.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By midday, though we were well up in the northerly latitudes, the heat was sickening.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We encountered it well up to the forty-fourth parallel, in a raw and stormy sea across which the wind harried the fog-banks in eternal flight.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)