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JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

膨ふくれ上あがる

fukureagaru

to balloon, to grow sharply

Used of numbers, costs and other amounts. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 数百人すうひゃくにんの抗議者こうぎしゃが通とおりを占拠せんきょし、その後数千人ごすうせんにんに膨ふくれ上あがった。

    Hundreds of protesters took to the streets, then thousands.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. ある推計すいけいによると、1880年ねんから1910年ねんにかけて、東三省とうさんしょうの人口じんこうは743万まん4千人せんにんから1783万まん6千人せんにんまで膨ふくれ上あがっている。

    Certain estimates indicate that the population of Dongsan Province actually grew to 17,836,000 from 7,434,000 between 1880 and 1910.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 戦前せんぜんのリトル東京とうきょうの日本料理店にほんりょうりてんは、主おもに最大数万人規模さいだいすうまんにんきぼのコミュニティにまで膨ふくれ上あがった日系人にっけいじんのための食堂しょくどうであった。

    Japanese restaurants in little Tokyo before the war played the role of a cafeteria mainly for Japanese-Americans in a community which expanded to the scale of several tens of thousands of people at the maximum.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 膨上

  • 膨swell; get fatOnボウKunふくらむ・ふくれる
  • 上above; upOnジョウ・ショウ・シャンKunうえ・うわ-・あげる

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