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Definition of Fatten
1. Verb. Make fat or plump. "We will plump out that poor starving child"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Entails: Feed, Give
Derivative terms: Fat, Fat
Definition of Fatten
1. v. t. To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
2. v. i. To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
Definition of Fatten
1. Verb. (intransitive) To become fatter ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To cause to be fatter ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fatten
1. to make fat [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: fat
Medical Definition of Fatten
1. 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. Origin: See Fat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatten
Literary usage of Fatten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year (1793)
"... day following. evening, and at nine o'clock M night. If he does not eat the
provender well and freely, it muft be changed for fome other kind. To fatten ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... on him by the people, as well as for the hardships he has endured in the town
of Boston, when being cooped up to fatten on salt provisions and peas, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... fatten épiscopaux (Paria, 1907), II, 37; Gallia Chr.. II. 245. (4) GENESIUS,
Count of Clermont, d. 725. Feast, 5 June. According to the lessons of the ..."
4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"... though the use of ** poderis," as an alternative name, seems to make thi»
somewhat doubtful, (Quoted by Dr. Rock, Chunk of <mr fatten, rol L p. ..."
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