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bubbled

bubbled is the simple past and past participle of bubble.

Meaning of bubble

Verb

bubble (third-person singular simple present bubbles, present participle bubbling, simple past and past participle bubbled)

  1. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
    • The laminate is bubbling.
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
    • Rage bubbled inside him.
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
    • The target of this event is the most deeply nested common ancestor of all changes that occurred in the document, and it bubbles up the document tree […]2002, David Flanagan, JavaScript: the definitive guide
  4. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To cover or spread with bubbles
  5. (archaic, rare, transitive) To delude, dupe, or hoodwink; to cheat.
    • No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government […]1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 443
  6. (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To cry, weep.

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Words formed from bubbled

Phrases with bubbled

Questions about bubbled

What is bubbled the simple past and past participle of?
Bubbled is the simple past and past participle of bubble.

Words near bubbled in the dictionary

  1. bubble-wrap
  2. bubble-wrapped
  3. bubble-wrapping
  4. bubble-wraps
  5. bubbleable
  6. bubbled
  7. bubbled in
  8. bubbled over
  9. bubbled under
  10. bubbled up
  11. bubblefish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bubbled (page history and authors); bubble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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