grossir
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to increase, to make larger
- (transitive) to plump up
- (intransitive) to put on weight, to gain weight; to get fat
Etymology
Affix from French gros (big, fat).
Origin
French
gros
Gloss
big, fat
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
脂
Emoji
🐘 🔍️ 🔎 🦒
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Grosjean French
- dauphin à gros nez French
- dégrossir French
- dégrossissage French
- engrosser French
- gros French
- grossement French
- grossesse French
- grossier French
- grossissement French
- grossiste French
- grossophobe French
- grossophobie French
- gros Old French
- gro Serbo-Croatian
- gwo Haitian, Haitian Creole