- to put on weight; to gain weight; to grow fat; to get stout
Godan verb with 'ru' ending; intransitive verb
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"We've got taller so they don't fit." "Right, it's certainly not that we've got fat!" "The useful phrase 'grown up' is our trump card."
"My metabolism is such that no matter how much I eat I don't put on weight." "Just now, this second, you've made enemies of people throughout the world."