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bubbles under

bubbles under is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bubble under.

Meaning of bubble under

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To remain beneath a level.
    • The results bubbled under the limit.
  2. (intransitive) To be in the background or margins of a phenomenon.
    • The Republicans were bubbling under in the area, waiting for an electoral break.
  3. (intransitive) To be successful on a modest scale, without yet being fully established.
    • The band was still bubbling under then, but their fame was about to explode.

Questions about bubbles under

What is bubbles under the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bubbles under is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bubble under.

Words near bubbles under in the dictionary

  1. bubbler
  2. bubblers
  3. bubbles
  4. bubbles in
  5. bubbles over
  6. bubbles under
  7. bubbles up
  8. bubblesome
  9. bubblest
  10. bubblet
  11. bubbleth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bubbles under (page history and authors); bubble under (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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