Idiom
boil up
Meaning
To become more excited, intense or exciting.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The tension starts to boil up before the big game.”
“As the final minutes of the match approached, the excitement began to boil up among the fans in the stadium.”
“The long-standing resentment between the two rival factions continued to boil up, eventually reaching a point where conflict became inevitable.”
Examples
simple
“The tension starts to boil up before the big game.”
contextual
“As the final minutes of the match approached, the excitement began to boil up among the fans in the stadium.”
complex
“The long-standing resentment between the two rival factions continued to boil up, eventually reaching a point where conflict became inevitable.”
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