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- 1. make or become fat or fatter: "he could do with some good food to fatten him up" Similar Opposite
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The meaning of FATTEN is to make fat, fleshy, or plump; especially : to feed (an animal) for slaughter. How to use fatten in a sentence.
verb (used without object) to grow fat. fatten. / ˈfætən / verb. to grow or cause to grow fat or fatter. tr to cause (an animal or fowl) to become fat by feeding it. tr to make fuller or richer. tr to enrich (soil) by adding fertilizing agents. Discover More. Derived Forms. ˈfattenable, adjective. ˈfattener, noun. ˈfattening, adjective.
fatten (somebody/something) (up) to make somebody/something fatter, especially an animal before killing it for food; to become fatter The piglets are taken from the sow to be fattened for market. She's very thin after her illness—but we'll soon fatten her up.
To fatten someone is to feed them until they become bigger and fatter. Your grandmother might see a tiny baby and say, "His mother needs to fatten him up!" A farmer might spend weeks trying to fatten his prize pigs before he sells them for meat, and you may visit relatives who keep cooking you delicious food in an attempt to fatten you up.
4 meanings: 1. to grow or cause to grow fat or fatter 2. to cause (an animal or fowl) to become fat by feeding it 3. to make.... Click for more definitions.
1. To make plump or fat. 2. To fertilize (land). 3. To increase the amount or substance of: fatten one's bank account. v.intr. To grow fat or fatter. fat′ten·er n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
FATTEN definition: to make animals fatter so that they can be eaten. Learn more.
The smaller size of the flocks and the breeding of sheep for meat rather than for wool, the cultivation of English grasses and of extensive crops of turnips and other roots on which to fatten sheep and lambs, all tend to change sheep-farming from the mere grazing of huge mobs on wide, unimproved runs held by pastoral licences.
fatten meaning, definition, what is fatten: to make an animal become fatter so that ...: Learn more.
to grow or cause to grow fat or fatter. ( transitive) to cause (an animal or fowl) to become fat by feeding it. ( transitive) to make fuller or richer. ( transitive) to enrich (soil) by adding fertilizing agents. ˈfattening adj. 'fatten' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
