fatten
[fat-n]
verb (used with object)
to make fat.
to feed (animals) abundantly before slaughter.
to enrich: to fatten the soil; to fatten one's pocketbook.
Cards.
- Poker.to increase the number of chips in (a pot).
- Pinochle.to play a card that scores high on (a trick) expected to be taken by a partner.
verb (used without object)
to grow fat.
Origin of fatten
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Related Words for fatten
swell, broaden, augment, feed, thicken, bloat, distend, wax, increase, spread, stuff, thrive, cram, plump, expand, fill, overfeed, coarsenExamples from the Web for fatten
Contemporary Examples of fatten
We should judge innovators not on whether they fatten our wallets, but whether their products enrich our lives.
The Drug Enforcement Administration partners with local police forces to fatten budgets with seizures from dealers.
So where are the angry headlines and government initiatives to fatten up our jockeys?
Historical Examples of fatten
He began to joke, and told his brother that he would undertake to fatten him.
The Fat and the ThinEmile Zola
But the principal use to which we put them is to fatten our pigs.
Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)William Delisle Hay
Are men who have these institutions only to eat and fatten like beasts?
LawsPlato
As for me, I am over-young to break my neck and be left on the mountain-side to fatten crows.
The Shame of MotleyRaphael Sabatini
Fatten them up well, and the foreigners will give me good prices.'
The Little Girl LostEleanor Raper
fatten
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