Fatten
['fæt(ə)n] or ['fætn]
Definition
(verb.) make fat or plump; 'We will plump out that poor starving child'.
Editor: Patrick--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
(v. t.) To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood.
(v. i.) To grow fat or corpulent; to grow plump, thick, or fleshy; to be pampered.
Edited by Craig
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Make fat.[2]. Fertilize, make fertile.
v. n. Grow fat.
Inputed by Elizabeth
Examples
- The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past; For the stateliest building man can raise, Is the Ivy's food at last. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Peanuts are really the seeds or pods of a plant belonging to the family called the earthnut in Great Britain, the nuts there being used chiefly to fatten swine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Feeding and fattening countries, besides, must always be highly improved, whereas breeding countries are generally uncultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His wonderful enterprise, his wonderful wealth, his wonderful Bank, were the fattening food of the evening paper that night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All of our heroes are fattening now as we approach the second year. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The fattening of ortolans, birds of passage which arrive lean in the country, is said to be so in some parts of France. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Or else fattened. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Both the price and the maintenance of the cattle which are bought in and fattened, not for labour, but for sale, are a circulating capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Megan