fatten
verb (used with object)
to make fat.
Example Sentences
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He would hold them for around three months, for the intermediate stage in their lives called backgrounding, because the animals build up health and immunity before being sold again to feedlots for final fattening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Monday’s game offered yet another example of how the team that supposedly is ruining baseball is fattening the wallets of the league’s other 29 teams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
That isn’t enough to sway the gladiatorial majority, which is mostly made up of men grinning at the fattening piggy bank suspended above them.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2025
A broad indictment of the entire fast-food industry, the best seller accused the industry of being bad for the environment, rife with labor issues, culturally flattening and culinarily fattening.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2024
“I didn’t think so, but why else were they fattening me up?”
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
