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2. to feed (animals) abundantly before slaughter.
3. to enrich: to fatten the soil; to fatten one's pocketbook.
4. Cards . a. Poker .
b. Pinochle .
–verb (used without object)
—Related forms fat·ten·a·ble, adjective
fat·ten·er, noun
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fat·tened , fat·ten·ing , fat·tens
tr.
To make plump or fat.
To fertilize (land).
To increase the amount or substance of: fatten one's bank account.
intr.
fat'ten·er n.
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Share This fatten verb make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"
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(
often with up ) to make or become fat
Example:
They are fattening up a turkey to eat at Christmas.
Arabic: يُسَمِّن Chinese (Simplified): 养肥 Chinese (Traditional): 養肥 Czech: vykrmovat; ztloustnout Danish: opfede Dutch: mesten Estonian: nuumama, rasva minema Finnish: lihottaa, lihoa French: engraisser German: mästen Greek: παχαίνω Hungarian: (meg)hizlal Icelandic: fita Indonesian: menggemukkan Italian: ingrassare
Japanese: 太らせる Korean: 살찌다; 살찌우다 Latvian: uzbaroties; nobarot (lopus, putnus) Lithuanian: penėti Norwegian: gjø, fete opp, bli fet, legge på seg Polish: tuczyć Portuguese (Brazil): engordar Portuguese (Portugal): engordar Romanian: a (se) îngrăşa Russian: откармливать(ся) Slovak: vykŕmiť Slovenian: rediti (se) Spanish: engordar Swedish: bli fet, göda Turkish: şişmanla(t)mak
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fatty ,
fat ,
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Fat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Fatted ; p. pr. & vb. n.
atting .] [OE. fatten, AS. f[=ae]ttian. See
Fat , a., and cf.
Fatten .] To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
We fat all creatures else to fat us. --Shak.
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Fat"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Fattened ; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fattining .] [See
Fat , v. t.]
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. --Dryden.
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