bulked

Verb

bulk (third-person singular simple present bulks, present participle bulking, simple past and past participle bulked)

1. (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
   • The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the moment.1878, Leslie Stephen, Samuel Johnson
2. (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
3. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
4. (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To add bulk to; to bulk out.
   • Some of the towne dwellers haue ſo large an opinion of their ſetled prouiſion, that if all her Maieſties fleet at once ſhould put into their bay, within twelue dayes warning with ſo much double beere, beefe, fiſh and bisket they would bulke them as they could wallow away with.1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6

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