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Fatten

//ˈfætən// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause (a person or animal) to be fat or fatter. transitive

    "We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving."

  2. 2
    make fat or plump wordnet
  3. 3
    To become fat or fatter. intransitive

    "He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married."

  4. 4
    To make thick or thicker (often something containing paper, especially money). transitive

    "“You horrible old man, you’ve always tried to turn Erik into a slave, to fatten your pocketbook! […]”"

  5. 5
    To become thick or thicker. intransitive

    "A broad river of white paper rushed constantly up from the cylinder and leaped into a mangling chaos of machinery whence it emerged a second later, cut, printed, folded and stacked, sliding along a board with a hundred others in a fattening sheaf."

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  1. 6
    To make (soil) fertile and fruitful. transitive

    "to fatten land"

  2. 7
    To become fertile and fruitful. intransitive

    "These hostile Fields shall fatten with thy Blood."

Etymology

From fat + -en.

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