Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically.
synonym: intumesce.
Roget 315:
be agitated
&c.;
shake;
tremble,
tremble like an aspen leaf;
quiver,
quaver,
quake,
shiver,
twitter,
twire†,
writhe,
toss,
shuffle,
tumble,
stagger,
bob,
reel,
sway,
wag,
waggle;
wriggle,
wriggle like an eel;
dance,
stumble,
shamble,
flounder,
totter,
flounce,
flop,
curvet,
prance,
cavort [U.S.];
squirm.
throb,
pulsate,
beat,
palpitate,
go pitapat;
flutter,
flitter,
flicker,
bicker;
bustle.
ferment,
effervesce,
foam;
boil,
boil over;
bubble up;
simmer.
toss about,
jump about;
jump like a parched pea;
shake like an aspen leaf;
shake to its center,
shake to its foundations;
be the sport of the winds and waves;
reel to and fro like a drunken man;
move from post to pillar and from pillar to move from post to pillar and from pillar to post,
drive from post to pillar and from pillar to drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post,
keep between hawk and buzzard.
agitate,
shake,
convulse,
toss,
tumble,
bandy,
wield,
brandish,
flap,
flourish,
whisk,
jerk,
hitch,
jolt;
jog,
joggle,
jostle,
buffet,
hustle,
disturb,
stir,
shake up,
churn,
jounce,
wallop,
whip,
vellicate†.
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Roget 305:
ascend,
rise,
mount,
arise,
uprise;
go up,
get up,
work one's way up,
start up;
shoot up,
go into orbit;
float up;
bubble up;
aspire.
climb,
clamber,
ramp,
scramble,
escalade†,
surmount;
shin,
shinny,
shinney;
scale,
scale the heights.
[cause to go up]
raise,
elevate
etc.
307.
go aloft,
fly aloft;
tower,
soar,
take off;
spring up,
pop up,
jump up,
catapult upwards,
explode upwards;
hover,
spire,
plane,
swim,
float,
surge;
leap
etc.
309.
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