bulked
- 1Simple past and past participle of bulk.
The linebacker bulked up to 250 pounds over the off-season.
The threat had bulked large in his mind for years.
Note
A regular form, so one spelling covers both past and participle. Middle English already had it, and its variant ybulked carried the prefix that once marked participles. Before a noun it draws on the transitive "put in bulk" use: Modern Railways in 1964 wrote of bulked parcels, gathered from many stations into one load. The intransitive uses, such as a worry that has bulked large, take have in the perfect.
bulked is a form of bulk
bulk, verb: To gain body mass deliberately through diet, exercise, and training. Full entry
- Spelling
- bulk → bulked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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Origin
From Middle English bulked (also ybulked, ybolked), formed from the verb bulk plus the suffix -ed.