かさむ

kasamu

to mount up, to accumulate

Often used of costs or debts. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

彼かれは借財しゃくざいがかさんでいた。
His debts were piling up.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
このために費用ひようがかさみ、参勤交代さんきんこうたいは大名だいみょうの財政ざいせいを圧迫あっぱくすることとなった。
Sankin-kotai was so costly that it placed an enormous financial burden on daimyo accordingly.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
工期こうきと費用ひようがかさみ、明治めいじ～大正時代たいしょうじだいの土木技術どぼくぎじゅつでは危険きけんが大おおきかったため、意図的いとてきにトンネル工事こうじを避さけたためである。
This was because they were deliberately avoided, as the construction of tunnels was very costly, time consuming, and extremely dangerous with the civil engineering technology available during the Meiji and Taisho periods.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source