Illustration: At a Japanese apartment dining table, a square piece of mochi on a tabletop grill has swollen into a huge rounded blister. Its flat corners still cling to the grill, making the expansion of its middle unmistakable. A second piece remains small and flat beside it.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

膨ふくれる

fukureru

to swell, to bulge

Example sentences

  1. 炭酸たんさんを飲のむとすぐにお腹なかが膨ふくれる。

    When I drink carbonated water my stomach quickly starts feeling inflated.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. たくさん食たべたので腹はらが膨ふくれた。

    I’ve had enough, so my stomach is full.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 数日すうじつもすると人々ひとびとに噂うわさが伝つたわり、見物人けんぶつにんは百人ひゃくにんにまで膨ふくれ上あがった。

    In a few days a rumor spreads among people and spectators swell up to a hundred.

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

Kanji in 膨

  • 膨swell; get fatOnボウKunふくらむ・ふくれる

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