grossir
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verb
to increase, to make larger
to plump up
to put on weight, to gain weight; to get fat
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- Il s'y occupa activement des intérêts de cette colonie, et surtout des moyens de grossir l'émigration, qui marchait beaucoup trop lentement à son gré.He actively dealt with the interests of this colony, and above all with the means to increase emigration, which was going far too slowly at his own discretion.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
- Tout ce mouvement et les espérances que l'on commençait à concevoir en Canada (où l'on en forme toujours si vite), et que l'on ne cachait pas, remplirent d'étonnement et de crainte ces Sauvages chez lesquels ces nouvelles arrivaient grossies par l'exagération.All this movement and the hopes that were beginning to be conceived in Canada (where they were always formed so quickly), and which were not hidden, filled with astonishment and fear those Indians, whose news was magnified by exaggeration.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I
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