Usually means: Tears gather, preparing to flow.
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  1. well up: Vocabulary.com
  2. well-up: Wordnik
  3. well up: Wiktionary
  4. well up: Dictionary.com
  5. well up: Rhymezone
  6. well up: FreeDictionary.org
  7. well up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. well up: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. well up: Encyclopedia

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  1. well up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (well up)

verb:  (intransitive) To gradually or steadily flow upwards or outwards so as to begin to fill or overflow something.
verb:  (figurative, by extension, chiefly of an emotion) To accumulate within one, to the point of overwhelming one.
adjective:  (colloquial) Well versed; well acquainted (in or on).

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