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Definitions
increase (one's body weight)
Word origin
From Middle English gayn, gain, gein (“profit, advantage”), from Old Norse gagn (“benefit, advantage, use”), from Proto-Germanic *gagną, *gaganą (“gain, profit", literally "return”), from Proto-Germanic *gagana (“back, against, in return”), a reduplication of Proto-Germanic *ga- (“with, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Used in a sentence
“Looks like you’ve gained a new friend.”
“What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
“Another answers, ‘Let him be, He loves to make parade of pain, That with his piping he may gain The praise that comes to constancy.’”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Increase or benefit”4 letters
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