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bulking

/ ˈbʌlkɪŋ /

noun

  1. the expansion of excavated material to a volume greater than that of the excavation from which it came
  2. an increase in the volume of dry sand when its moisture content is increased
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

His youthful views seem merely that, youthful, like his habit of drinking milk in hope of bulking up his slight, small frame.

To the right there is a big steep knoll of green hill bulking up to the south of the valley, and very well fenced with enemy wire.

Slowly, they groped to him, great shadowy forms in wool and leather, bulking over Cappen like storm-gods.

The unemployed problem was bulking bigger than usual to the citizens of San Francisco.

It was piled in the field where it was cut, and the whole curing process, up to "bulking," is carried on in the open air.

He had but to glance to the south of his reindeer to detect some dark object bulking large in the night.

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