Definition of Fatten out

1. Verb. Make fat or plump. "We will plump out that poor starving child"

Exact synonyms: Fat, Fatten, Fatten Up, Fill Out, Flesh Out, Plump, Plump Out
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Entails: Feed, Give
Derivative terms: Fat, Fat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatten Out

fatshionistas
fatsi
fatsia
fatsias
fatso
fatsoes
fatsos
fatstock
fatstocks
fatsuit
fatsuits
fatted
fatten
fatten out (current term)
fatten up
fattened
fattener
fatteners
fattening
fatteningly
fattens
fatter
fattest
fattie
fattier
fatties
fattiest
fattily

Literary usage of Fatten out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1903)
"She must placate her agrarians, and make her peace with the great towns, and stablish her manufacturers, and fatten out her slender purse, ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Turning hogs which one co-tenant is keeping to fatten out Into the street without further account of them is prima facie evidence of destruction which will ..."

3. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress), Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) (1809)
"Now, if such an accident as this had fatten out% it might have given them just cause to have fallen from the Pope again: For they might have pretended, ..."

4. British Farmer's Magazine (1866)
"... i stock markets, or markets exclusively for store he purchasing of half-fat stock to fatten out for >, the practice may continue for a time as it now is ..."

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