fatten

Verb

US[fat-uhn]/ˈfætən/2 syllables

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make fat or plump“We will plump out that poor starving child”Synonyms: fat flesh out fill out plump plump out fatten out fatten upMore general change, alterInvolves feed, give

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Fat′ten transitive verb [past tense & past participle Fattened; present participle & verbal noun Fattening.]

Origin: See Fat, transitive verb

1. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.

2. To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. John Dryden

Fat′ten intransitive verb

To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.

And villains fatten with the brave man's labor.— Thomas Otway

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54