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[syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fatten \Fat"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fattened; p. pr. & vb.
n. Fattening.] [See Fat, v. t.]
1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or
plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
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2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten
land; to fatten fields with blood. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fatten \Fat"ten\, v. i.
To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to
be pampered.
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And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.
--Otway.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fatten
v 1: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving
child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out,
plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]