セイ, ジョウ, も.る, さか.る, さか.ん, もり

boom, prosper, copulate

JLPT1 G6 S11 F712

# make + dish/plate/bowl → make a heaping dish of food → *heap/pile* (food on a dish) → *serve* (food); *fill* (a bowl); *stack*; *generous serving of* → *prosper*; *flourish*; *succeed*; *do well* → *peak*; (full) *bloom*; *prime*; *be at the height of* → *enthusiastic*; *energetic*; (of animals) *in heat*; *rut*. Also, *popular*, *to a great degree* and *good measure of*.

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