welled
- 1Simple past and past participle of well.
Grief welled up inside her as the familiar music played.
Blood had welled from the wound before anyone could help.
Note
A form that belongs only to the verb, never to the adverb of doing something well, since adverbs take no past tense. The verb is intransitive, so the participle builds perfects (blood had welled) but not passives. Its subject can be what flows (tears welled) or the surface it seeps from (her eyes welled), and both patterns use the same form.
Her eyes welled as the coffin was carried past.
Tears had welled in his eyes long before he spoke.
welled is a form of well
well, verb: Of a liquid, to rise up and flow or seep out, as water from the ground, blood from a wound, or tears in the eyes; often with up. Full entry
- Spelling
- well → welled: add -ed
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