Illustration: At a Japanese family's dining table, a parent settles a thick booster cushion beneath a small child. The child's face now rises comfortably above the tabletop, and she can reach her bowl with room to spare.

ぐっと

gutto

considerably, much more

Example sentences

明あけ方近がたちかくは、ぐっと冷ひえ込こむ。
It gets extremely cold toward dawn.
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眉毛まゆげを整ととのえると印象いんしょうがぐっと良よくなった。
When I did up my eyebrows, I looked much, much better.
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もう一回見直いちかいみなおして。そうするとクオリティがぐっと上あがるから。
Give it another look over. It’ll be a lot better if you do.
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