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Meaning of 'fatten' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fatten [ v. i.]
- To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
2 . Fatten [ v. t.]
- To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
- To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.

Meaning of 'fatten' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fatten [ v]
Meaning (1):
- make fat or plump
Example in sentence:
  • We will plump out that poor starving child

Nearby Words:

fat fat-brained fat-kidneyed fat-wited fata morgana fatal fatalism fatalist fatalistic fatalities

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