Definition of "upswelling" []

• Present participle of upswell. (verb)

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• "Or is a spontaneous upswelling on the way, like all those revolutions in Eastern Europe, Orange, Rose, Velvet?"
• "At the turn of the 20th century, racist plays written by Dixon and which were the basis of Birth of a Nation contributed to an upswelling in anti-black violence."
• "She was lost in the moment, in the upswelling of emotion, in the increasing urgency of the kiss."