BUBBLE
/ËbĘb.Él/
12
Scrabble
17
WWF
B(3) U(1) B(3) B(3) L(1) E(1)
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Definition
/ËbĘb.Él/
noun
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.“bubbles in window glass, or in a lens”
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- 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.“dot-com bubble”
verb
- To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.“Rage bubbled inside him.”
- To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- To cheat, delude.
- To cry, weep.
Source: Wiktionary
