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jjida[찌다]Beginner · TOPIK IBodily changes

gain weight

1.Verb

  1. 1

    gain weight

    To put more flesh on one's body and become fat.

    Korean definition: 몸에 살이 붙어 뚱뚱해지다.

    • I must have put on weight over the winter, because the clothes I wore last spring hardly fit.

    • Jisu always watched her diet, eating little so as not to gain weight.

2.Verb

  1. 1

    be sultry; be sweltering

    To be humid and hot as if one is exposed to hot steam.

    Korean definition: 뜨거운 김을 쐬는 것같이 습하고 더워지다.

    • On sweltering summer nights, I think of cool watermelon.

    • It was so sultry that the makeup I had carefully put on in the morning was all washed off by sweat.

  2. 2

    steam

    To cook or heat up food with hot steam.

    Korean definition: 음식을 뜨거운 김으로 익히거나 데우다.

    • Jisu, who dislikes deep-fried food, always steamed her fish.

    • Mother must have been steaming potatoes, because the savory smell hit me as soon as I came home.