The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bulk \Bulk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bulked; p. pr. & vb. n. Bulking.] To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent; to swell.
The fame of Warburton possibly bulked larger for the
moment.
--Leslie
Stephen.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of bulk English)
Usage examples of "bulking".
I in shortening mine, while I could not help feeling some enjoyment in bulking the curiosity of my cassocked friend.
A kzin to control them, bulking even huger in fibroid armour and helmet.
John Branner was but a vaguely bulking shape in the darkness that the moon scarcely grayed.
The doors opened onto the unpartitioned space of a fitness centre, machines bulking insect-like and menacing in the unlit gloom.
But the scoutship that had been following him was now suddenly bulking almost against him, forcing him with delicate precision to change his flight path, urging him almost against the jagged rock that sped below.
Everywhere, in the gloom, there were vats, cupels, furnaces, alembics, and matrasses of unhuman form, bulking and towering colossally to the pigmy eyes of Maal Dweb.
He could see a vague shoulder of land beyond, with the faded green and yellow of summer bungalows bulking up on it like a stage scene backdropped to the snow.
The doors opened onto the unpartitioned space of a fitness center, machines bulking insectlike and menacing in the unlit gloom.
Due to the growth hormone limitation, the Cappy Jane moldies couldn't reproduce any further than that, but for a while they kept pecking, bulking up their bodies with additional imipolex.
Jovis Tholus was a bigger volcano than Tharsis Tholus, bigger in fact than any volcano on Earth, but it was located on the high saddle between Ascraeus Mons and Olympus Mons, and both were visible on skysills to east and west, bulking like vast plateau continents, and making Jovis seem compact, friendly, comprehensible-a hill you could walk up if you wanted to.
Jovis Tholus was a bigger volcano than Tharsis Tholus, bigger in fact than any volcano on Earth, but it was located on the high saddle between Ascraeus Mons and Olympus Mons, and both were visible on skysills to east and west, bulking like vast plateau continents, and making Jovis seem compact, friendly, comprehensible—a hill you could walk up if you wanted to.